"I'll write a whiny multipage diatribe to rage quit and insert a script to DDOS the instance that hurt my feelings. That's the behaviour of a well adjusted adult that's doing the right thing."

As a lemming, this whole drama is categorical censorial bullshit, but also peak comedy because the fuckwad got caught and publicly called on the carpet

As a software engineer, this is stupid implementation, because you can trivially make this a configurable blocklist of strings and regex. It never needed to even be an argument. Which of course means that it was never about the implementation.

As an open source enthusiast, take the software engineer response, but add: and he’s intentionally pushing his (visibly fucked up and warped) worldview and values onto users, and he tried to obfuscate it to be sneaky. That falls in the realm of malware imo - as in, intentionally mutating the functionality of a project with a specific intent of impact on users, and then attempting to hide the evidence. And then he got called out on it, and got super butthurt, and rage quit the whole goddamn platform.

TL;DR: Good fucking riddance.

See this kinda thing is exactly why I'm still here. Some guy tried to use his software's popularity to manipulate and censor Lemmy, and it had the exact opposite effect in the end. His software got immediately forked, most instances(that I know of) stopped using/supporting it and the whole thing is getting memed to death so now the entire usernase knows about it and can specifically avoid this guy and all the software he maintains.

When this kind of thing happens on a platform like reddit or some other closed system, we can often suspect and sometimes experimentally prove that some kind of censorship or manipulation is happening, but it is way more difficult to detect and there's little the users can do about it.

Not here.

Here the users have the power, the knowledge, and the motivation to not only find problems like this, but to take collective action against them. You all have just proved it, once again.

Great meme!

hmmm, i wonder who left the one downvote

Again, another post celebrating that I’m on the blocklist and Charlie Kirk isn’t.

Honest question, has he tried to defend the DDOS attack? Can’t imagine how one would justify that

oy vey-- I can be a real pill. but at least I can admit when I'm wrong. A lady/gentleman apologizes and exits stage left. One doesn't simply ragequit with a side of DDoS!

in all my years of slashdotting, Stumbling, Farking, Digging, redditry, and Lemming, I've never known anyone to go down this hard nor this bitter. WHAT A CUNT!

This beloved character's namesake deserved better

WHAT A STUPID ASSHOLE

Isn't doubling down on stupid takes a big masculinity flex in 2026?

All the alpha males seem to do it.

Everyone’s wrong sometimes that’s just the stale croutons in this human ceasar salad they call “life”. It takes a special kind of grit to be such a massive dog-rocket when your wrong tho

Oh, egads! My Fediverse is ruined!

But what if... I were to censor it, and disguise it as a server error?

Ohoho, delightfully devilish, Patrick

Get used to it.

Anyone with a Claude Code account can spew out a Lemmy (or any other service) client and make antisocial changes and dump it in the App Store. ✨

Is lemmy turning into reddit or something? I just see bits and pieces of this drama, don't really care enough to deep dive in it.. but found out I'm on the "list".

Frankly, my own block list is huge. Mostly keywords, very few users. I would recommend it to everyone. Any social media is unbearable without blocking shit out. Everyone should personalise blocklists to their tastes.

But you can't make this decision for people. This is why I also don't like that some instances defederate a lot of other instances they don't like (and no one tells newbies). There's a niche for pre-populated block lists that are available and curated and transparent (like for ad-blockers).

As I gain a better understanding of how federated social media works, I just find it even more confusing. This dude appointed himself batman of lemmy, but he's just a single dev of a single frontend. Don't most instances have multiple frontends? Even if a secret block list was the key to getting lemmy to finally go mainstream (it's not), implementing it at a frontend level is simultaneously both way too wide and way too small of a net. If tesseract was the only way anyone could access lemmy, maybe a secret block list could actually change the winds, but it's such a small slice of the fediverse. It's like if batman was only beating up jaywalkers and was like "You're welcome, Gotham. The city is saved."

What was the point of any of it? Someone was inevitably going to discover it was happening. There were so many people on the block list. Was he just going to personally defend against the ranks of people he found annoying forever? Keep adding more and more regex as the list grows to multiple thousands of users?They're still on the platform, dude. It's just one filter on one frontend. What the hell are you trying to accomplish?

The most dumbfounding thing to me is that the list isn't even base64 encoded. Its just sitting in the repo plain-text. I can't decided if its laziness, a lack of data integrity standards, lack of imagination, or if he wanted all this drama one day.