I don’t think Lemmy’s fediverse model needs any more promotion than what it naturally has to allow for.

It’s almost poetic that the country that has financed and created the AI slop problem to where it is now gets burned by it to this degree.

Since OP won’t make any effort to defend this, I will.

In these sort of cases, wouldn’t it be more appropriate for the court to fine the company the $22 million to the company, award a more appropriate stipend to the victim that does not actively promote and reward with wealth gaps, pay the lawyers, and to then allow her to be the executor with what’s left in regards to being able to be spent to prevent similar abuses from happening in the future, with the responsibility falling back to the judge if she does not want to be? She would then be limited in how she could spend that, but she could spend it however she wants for that purpose - create a political campaign, finance unions, etc.

Where? The only thing OP is doing is not actually engaging in good faith by being completely dismissive when they are engaged.

You could just choose not to respond. If someone respectfully asks something, either answer or don’t. The only stupid retort I found was yours to those sort of questions.

You made a point and failed to carry it home. Why even bother to post here? Just wanted people to tell you you are right? Wrong audience.

Just because there were ways to do it before does not mean they were as easy to use or as cheap as AI, and just because there are other ways to cheat doesn’t whataboutism clear away any criticism of the most notoriously popular method.

Does a good parent place restrictions on what their child can and can’t do? Yes. The thing about bad parents is that they are notoriously irresponsible. They would be the least likely to utilize such a feature.

What are you a proponent of, the Minority Report version of banning? Ironically enough, even without a ban this has meant I haven’t even participated in their instance for anything, so not even that.

Are we play acting that not even mods and admins have alts in other instances now?

Is it surprising if they take a pleasure cruise shortcut after their donation drives? The Gaza flotilla ships were at least twice as big, involved more, and they also looked the part. These look like surfer dude sailboats on vacation.

Even symbolically these don’t seem to hold up to scrutiny. I am not a ship connoisseur, but still…

The only clearly defined traits between some of the sockpuppets are their attitudes and insults. If you have to begin to claim that they are in on it and that its all an act, then you can go full in and claim that this entire thread is an act to farm drama from some demented troll, and it can go any way you want.

I can’t say OP inspires me with great confidence regarding their innocence, but going by their arguments and the ones that have been brought on, at least the oldest before the troll accounts began infecting the thread, they made some good points. But all good facades do. Their modlog has its fair share of drama.

The jump from that to a sockpuppeteer, well, frankly, I would assume that’s more the realm of karmawhores from my experience on reddit, and there were no shortage of ones who could be quite charismatic and then flip out to be a completely vulgar toxic troll. Those that sockpuppeteer want control of the narrative, and what’s the best position to have control on a place like Lemmy?

I may have my biases, but I would not stack my bets against one single suspect here.

You really aren’t making a good case for yourself if you are trying to promote ban evasion. Were your critics right, and is your gig up now?

And no, this is just an alt, after experiencing some rather concerning double standards of enforcement in another instance as well as an harsh degree of escalation from said enforcement, this account represents a different approach on a platform that handles some things better than Lemmy’s and avoids any presence on the aforementioned instance.

If those are the boats in the image, that’s really stretching the definition of what an “aid” ship can be.

This moron, NATO knew that the first few months. Nobody would be taking Trump’s US seriously if it wasn’t for everything it had built up that’s now tumbling down upon itself.

If it proves nothing, why do you care about “Proof”? DraconicNEO is the spam account, Draconic_NEO is the powermod. At least so far, because given how Lemmy is, it’s easy for that alone, without the domain, to stop being a sufficiently descriptive identifier for long.

He shouldn’t even have gotten Machado’s, that was a dumb gamble from her.

I wonder what tipped the balances. Was it the threat of Epstein prosecutions? Was it the threat that the oligarchy might be taken down a few places? Or was it just pure greed? Because it certainly wasn’t out of ideals, feigning loyalty to bullshit populist grass roots movements was just the means to an end.

Hint: it was all three.

Proof from thee, but not from me? will_steal_your_username is asking for proof when they already got a direct reply that hints at why they believe so (they started all spamming at the same time).

Considering OP didn’t seem to know who banned them, are you also claiming BootyEnthusiast, the user who provided who it was, was in on it? Should be easy to prove, since they are also on dbzer0.

Their comments aren’t even anything like the harassers. And if you are going to claim it’s all an act, why should we assume you aren’t part of one?

They know who they are, and it depends on what’s involved. Even if the ban was clearly in bad faith, the tune changes when it’s someone co-mingling in their circles, and I’ll leave it at that since it would involve old Matrix conversations. If you haven’t, that’s good, although it’s what ban happy behavior encourages. The only people whom bans like those works against are good faith participants.

They are definitely doing a lot of smoke screening against the actual complaints. Still doesn’t stop OP from looking good when they call them out. I don’t know about your claims, but I’ve definitely seen users be as manipulative as that long before even reddit was a thing.

I’d stick to calling the trolls out instead of implicating the powermod, though (even if it’s just because they are using an impostor nick and you are citing it correctly). They seem to have done that to themselves through their actions.

Doesn’t help that admins have at times decided to encourage alt’ing to bypass bans “because if they are good faith participants, they won’t get banned again”. The problem is the whole federated system means accommodating different standards.

As a proponent of any decent implementation of the idea, I’d just like to point out that if we could select our own moderators for communities, a lot of these alts and sock puppets would probably have been handled by the people I would have aggregated to the list instead of just waiting for the time zone or availability to roll over to the official ones. A lot of these are blatantly obvious.