In the recent Lemmy developer update, there’s a reference to one Lemmy developer, SleeplessOne1917.
I found some horrifying comments from this user.
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649200 - “There is no such thing as an Israeli civilian. All settlers are valid targets.”
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649472 - “15 year olds are military age. That makes them valid targets for killing.”
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649732 - “… There is no such thing as a zionoid civilian. Everything that moves and isn’t Palestinian is a valid target. …”
Webarchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171047/https://lemmy.ml/u/CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
Edit: New comment from the user “Cry more. Israelis need to be eliminated. Death to Israel, and death to Amerikkka!”
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171510/https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2592588
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171739/https://lemmygrad.ml/post/750810
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171907/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4569805
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009172817/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4413706
Friendly reminder that it’s very easy to sympathize with the plight of the Palestinians without glorifying terrorists.
For a similar example, I support the cause of a United Ireland but that doesn’t mean I support the IRA. Be better than that.
Let’s keep in mind this doesn’t really mean anything for Lemmy instances. It is open source.
True, but there are not very many people contributing a lot of code, so this guy has a lot of sway over which items get prioritized out of the massive backlog.
And as a mod, I’d really like the few people coding to produce some expanded moderation tools… so I can easily spot and address toxic comments like the ones this dev makes.
IMHO, this guy’s behavior feels like it conflicts with his current influence over Lemmy’s mod toolset.
Edit: typos
Ive been working on a soft fork of lemmy called Pangora to prioritize development on different areas that the main lemmy codebase has been neglecting (such as mod tools). Gives a different option than the main lemmy codebase for supporting development and as redundancy for if anything goes wrong (although not production ready atm as its still getting mostly set up) !pangora@programming.dev
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Stories like these can make it less likely that other people contribute to the code, making the platform grow slower, which affects all instances.
There is no indication whatsoever that @SleeplessOne1917 is the same person as @cannotsleep420. Jesus, people, stop pissing yourselves for the literal 30 seconds it took to fact check this bullshit claim.*edit: I took the liberty of finding the actual dev’s account: /u/SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml. It took a whole additional minute. You’re welcome
*edit 2: /u/NOT_RICK@lemmy.world has some links below that do indeed link /u/SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml to /u/CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml. Soooo, while I don’t regret my nearly infinite capacity for skepticism, but it looks like this story has some legs. Hat tip to NOT_RICK, who is adamantly not Rick.
You might want to reinvestigate. @cannotsleep420 is the one that made those comments and they are a dev.
In the recent Lemmy developer update, there’s a reference to one Lemmy developer, SleeplessOne1917.
I found some horrifying comments from this user.
The post then lists comments from /u/cannotsleep420@lemmygrad.ml, however the text over the name is SleeplessOne (without the number on the end). This account is also on lemmygrad, the lemmy devs’ main accounts are on lemmy.ml. Do you have anything to verify that they’re the same person, or that they are another dev? Because I see no “CannotSleep420” mentioned on the github page. The main two are actually /u/dessalines@lemmy.ml and /u/nutomic@lemmy.ml.
Next you’ll be telling me that Hollywood actress Margot Robbie also moderates round these parts.
You can look up my other comment for more examples, but this one is the most clear:
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/750810
They may not be the same person, although I suspect they are as the lemmy.ml account isn’t active, but either way 420 is at a minimum a contributor
They “contributed to the project”, that doesn’t mean they have any authority over lemmy development, as the top of the post is suggesting. “Contributing to the project” could mean just about anything.
While I wouldn’t completely discount the possibility that they are the same person, this post provides no evidence of that. HOWEVER, this comment suggests they might well be!!
TBF the future lemmy developer isn’t too far off. I’ve been discussing being added to the NLNet grant along with another person, phiresky, with Dessalines and Nutomic.
@TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com you might be interested in that.
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I understand that. @cannotsleep420 is still in that Lemmy update thread mentioning development to-dos.
Feel free to share that thread link. In the meantime, here’s the actual dev account: /u/SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml. And their selfless unpaid work removing pedos from find-lemmy: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/3630011
Yeah they don’t use that account. It’s pretty clear to me they’re active on their lemmygrad account over the lemmy.ml one.
Here they are mentioning dev work:
https://lemmy.ml/comment/4413706
I deleted my previous response as it was a bit dickish. I stand corrected, this is pretty strong evidence.
All good, I’ve gone after people too hard too (got a mean comment deleted yesterday in fact, I was definitely wrong). It’s good to have scruples
@SleeplessOne1917 seems to be their GitHub handle. You can see this by going to one of the pull requests that are linked in the thread (e.g instance block feature)
@cannotsleep420 seems to be their lemmy handle. You can see this by going to the thread link the OP posted, in which that account is commenting about the UI tweaks.
Both accounts list their location as ‘Burgerland’(?) so they’re most likely the same dev. Plus the ‘SleeplessOne1917’ lemmy handle you linked has absolutely no activity.
You can also see @cannotsleep420 crossposting earlier lemmy changelogs that mention @SleeplessOne1917…
FYI, you can make an instance agnostic link just by typing /u/SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml.
Doesn’t work for me. @SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml does though
Nice tip, thank you. Still fumbling my way around…
No worries. A couple other things:
/c/community
and@community@instance
will work for communities./u/user@instance
is instance agnostic but will not generate a mention to the user’s inbox.[linktext](http://instance/u/user)
will link to the user’s instance only, but it sends a mention to them. You can also do this by starting to type@user@instance
and selecting the user from the dropdown box (on the website, not necessarily in apps).- The different apps for lemmy don’t necessarily always work correctly in line with the website, but they’ll catch up.
- Each post is actually primarily hosted at that user’s instance, then federated from there. So if you’re a lemmy.world user and post in a lemmy.ml community, your post will actually post at lemmy.world first and then federate. It isn’t necessarily hosted in the community’s instance. The same is true for every comment - hence why you won’t see comments from users in an instance yours isn’t federated with, even if they are federated with the post’s instance and can comment in the thread.
- You can’t really do anything with posts or comments to jump across instances, as each instance assigns a different number to the same content. Hopefully one day they’ll change it so the url is more like
http://instance/post/123456@hostinstance
in everywhere but the federated host instance. But it’s all still in early development.
Lemmygrad and hexbear serve as a propaganda wing of for people that make being communist their whole life. You can block certain feds to clear out your feed.
I wouldn’t get riled up about it, they literaly say stuff to upset you so you react.
Lemmy.ml isn’t much better.
The Internet is not safe, just got wade through the shit to make it to something good them make a path toward it by getting rid of the noise.
I don’t expect it to be safe, and I do expect to fight against authoritarian propaganda when I see it.
All the drama and hateful trolls are extremely similar to the growing pains of reddit 15 years ago. The rational healthy users outnumber the hateful crazies, and that trend will continue as the userbase grows.
I hope…
I hope so too but I’m not optimistic. I was on Reddit before most people and it didn’t have anywhere this level of authoritarian propaganda.
It’s world’s better. But still chick full of Leninist. So still problematic because of that. On the whole though they don’t brigade like hexbear or lemmygrad. Hell a large swath of their users are ironically not leninists even. However, when you do find one that is Leninist yeah you’re gonna get toxic irrationality. But no worse than your average capitalist or neo-libertarian.
I just had several calm, rational comments deleted with no reason given. I can only assume it’s because I was correcting a lie that made the CCP look better. A bunch of other people’s comments got deleted in the same thread.
In other words, lemmy.ml had strict censorship in order to support an authoritarian government. It’s a cancer on the Fediverse.
How do I block an entire instance?
right now you can only block communities. if everything goes according to plan, instance block should arrive with the next update, which is supposedly 1 month away.
So I use Jebora on my android phone and if I go directly onto communities front page and a 3 dot icon on the top right side of the page it will say in the options 'block community" might have to block individually but there ain’t that many large communities that will have such a loud voice.
You know, I came to lemmy because I was disgusted with the reddit admins and devs. And this shit just is not helping.
For the most part, Lemmy instances are separate from the developers. But the great thing about ActivityPub and the fediverse is that we can move platforms and keep the same content. Kbin can subscribe to the same communities that Lemmy can.
Yeah, this is one of the best parts of the fediverse. It’s not just another plattform like Reddit. It’s a bunch of Plattforms of various services, even Lemmy is just hundreds of small Reddits that connect to each other. Meaning we are not beholden to one person like on Reddit to participate in the fediverse.
Understand that the Lemmy devs do not have ultimate power over your instance, and that your instance admins may feel very differently to them
The difference here is that these people aren’t really running the show. They’re in charge of the main development branch, but that’s just back end code, and it is (or should be) reviewed by every admin when they use it to implement their instance. Development can be adopted or forked by other people, should politics get in the way.
It’s the morals of your own instance and its admin that are most important, these are the ones synonymous with reddit’s staff. In fact, it’s possible for the instance to put whatever code they want up. It can easily be non-standard to official lemmy, so you really are trusting them rather than the main lemmy devs.
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OP user joined two hours ago, and this subject is literally the only thing OP has posted about, on four different forums.
Is it too much to ask for minimum requirements for posting in a community?
IMO believing that someone’s work can become tainted by their beliefs is a form of magical thinking.
Switch to kbin!
I thought we were already aware that the devs are deranged lmao
*hexbears: that’s why I’m here
I mean yeah, but I do like knowing who and in what way.
What a special piece of shit he is.
The Lemmy devs are tankies, they also deny chinese human rights violations and deny genocides.
Block lemmy and move on. -6000 points? Holy shit
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It’s not something I think, it’s a fact.
I’m already on kbin :)
Did you just ask a Kbin user to delete their Lemmy account? LOL
Why should they tuck their tail instead of calling out the narrow-minded hateful idiots? They’re a sad little fringe minority.
This is difficult. I don’t contribute code yet, but knowing that these kind of people might have a say in the development of Lemmy, I’m not sure I want to contribute. Maybe !pangora@programming.dev will be more welcoming… dunno.
Pease consider the opposite; if a fork is needed at some point in the future, we need people who are familiar with the codebase. It would be, for example, much better for 3 of 4 contributors to be sane than only 2 of 3.
1st & 2nd of these are inside a post at news@hexbear.net (not lemmygrad.ml)
it has 490 upvotes, is locked & it is radically pro Palestine and anti Israel.
Not defending this user, just looking at the context.
Welp. This has been an education in how deranged this place is.
This place we are on right now is lemmy.ca. What does it say about it?
There are many people who take sides in this complex conflict and then argue with each other about it like there would be one good and one evil side and then there are inhumane and misanthropic anti-Semites like this one - disgusting!
Interested about opinions.
Would it be better if the dev would use separate accounts for professional communication, and private opinion? Like, separate life from work?
I remember when extreme political views of main Lemmy Devs (which are/where admins s of lemmygrad as well, if I recall correctly) were discussed here several times, people suggested to ignore them and focus on their work. Donate for Lemmy development, not to the persons…
what concrete solution do you see, switch to kbin? Continue to separate development from their other activities?
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In this thread people often talk about “a contributor”. However, lemmy’s the core dev teams has a very specific “political view” which is coupled with the project. The project was started to serve people with that “political view”. And this makes really hard to decouple project and the people who drive it.
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switch to kbin?
Switch to kbin
Lack of sleep is known to make people irritable, paranoid and experience audio and visual hallucinations. Remember to always catch up on your sleep in order to stay healthy.
That being said, dude, ignorance is bliss.