Yeah, it seems to have gotten way way worse since I made this post. Also he finally locked it because he couldn’t censor people’s comments fast enough and wasn’t getting enough positive interaction for it to be worth it.

I ended up actually taking over his other community !linux_vs_windows@lemmy.world and the first thing I did was permaban madthumbs with content removal and the community posts shrank to almost nothing. Just goes to show how little actual people actually care about these communities. Yet some idiot tried to argue I’d somehow make them popular, which still hasn’t happened.

I don’t know what you were expecting going in to the topic with such hostility and aggression, whatever it was I certainly can’t blame those mods for removing your comments, honestly I’m surprised they didn’t ban you from the community for that. You absolutely deserve it.

This seems like a dumb question, BitTorrent absolutely is still relevant and probably the most popular method of file sharing in the scene. Foss groups use it too for distributing ISO files for Operating systems, and it might even be used as the video hosting provider in future Fediverse YouTube alternatives (I’ve heard talk of a video hosting platform on Fedi which uses activitypub for everything else but hosts videos via BitTorrent) pretty cool stuff.

So yeah BitTorrent is still relevant, and it makes sense since if it isn’t broken why fix it? Not to say that it couldn’t be better, the biggest problem with it is the anonymity issue, but until someone makes something better BitTorrent will continue to be popular, and the ideal choice for decentralized file sharing, especially in the piracy scene.

We really need to stop complaining about the pronouns shit, the real problem with dragonfucker isn’t with the preferred pronouns, it’s the fact that dragonfucker is known to harass individuals who call them out on their trolling or sealioning or disagree with them in any way they can’t spin as aggressive or hateful.

I was harassed by an alt of this person because I called them out for their behavior when they decided to make a public attack post on me (now deleted) because I preemptively banned their user account and “spouse” account from communities I moderated for trolling, sealioning, and bad faith arguments.

I clarified that politely and reasonably and also properly contacted pawb.social’s admins (since the mentions in their comment weren’t done properly) and the following response was to create @draconicistransphobc@discuss.online and create !fuckdraconicneo@discuss.online and start spamming it with abusive content attempting to defame, humiliate, intimidate, or even just scare me. That account also sent me porn in my DMs and made rude insults towards me. I was also told to kill myself and also sent death threats, including an invitation for admins to give out my IP address so I could be hunted down and tortured.

I’m almost certain that dragonfucker is the one who did this since it happened immediately after the post which was made on !meta@pawb.social complaining about the bans, and also there were many slip-ups by that account which indicated it was an alt belonging to dragonfucker. Unfortunately beyond that dragonfucker likely did a good job at covering their tracks, or Lemmy just sucks at identifying people, probably both, but I’m confident enough that I’d be willing to bet real money it was dragonfucker, the circumstances are way too suspicious.

Edit:

Here are some of the messages and comment mentions from the alt account mentioned in the post, fair warning, they’re not pleasant. Pornographic imagery has been censored.

Are you deliberately trying to misrepresent the meaning of the post or do you legitimately not understand. I’m not telling you to not go to the linuxsucks community, go join it if you really want to. This isn’t a plea to get people not to join it. It’s a warning about their behavior. But please, feel free to go on about how I’m supposedly helping them. The goal of this post is neither to help them, nor to hurt them. It is simply to provide information.

As others have said, if you don’t like it, block it.

I didn’t say explicitly that I didn’t like it or that people shouldn’t use it, just that the main mod has been power-tripping and very likely is a troll. So if you want to hang out there that’s fine. Though I wouldn’t expect any kind of content diversity there. It’s likely going to be just be the main mod making posts, which he might even give up on later. It’s also very likely he’ll ban you for a misunderstanding, since some of the people there were banned seemingly for nothing.

I think he basically only made it because he somehow thought that if he had his own community his memes wouldn’t get as heavily downvoted, as they do on !linuxmemes@lemmy.world though they’re pretty wrong about that. Pretty much all but one of their posts there on linuxsucks are getting downvoted heavily.

The difference between !fuckcars@lemmy.world and linuxsucks is that the first one is largely a fact and logic based community about the problems with car dependency in urban areas, and car-dependent infrastructure.

linuxsucks is a single troll who’s talking shit about linux for seemingly no real reason, some of his posts are insanely illogical, and make very little sense. So yeah I definitely think these communities are anything like each other.