DonaldJMusk is running dozens of accounts (lemmy.nz)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ProudAntifa@lemmings.world to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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UniversalMonk, PapaSkwat, DonaldJMusk, TheSilentNickel, QuantumTickler, his communities are full of Astro turfing sock puppets.

EDIT: My list of sock puppets. I doubt it's perfect and I may have picked up a few that weren't him

Area15@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today
EndlessApollo@hilariouschaos.com
EndlessApollo@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
KaratinBandit@feddit.uk
PapaSkwat@lemmings.world
PapaSkwat@lemmy.today
PhilipsHurtFeelings@crazypeople.online
QuantumTickle@maga.place
Rhoerii@lemy.lol
Snatchdaddy@hilariouschaos.com
TheSilentNickel@feddit.org
barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf
donaldjmusk@maga.place
thesilentnickel@lemmy.today
thesilentnickel@lemmyusa.com
donaldjmusk@lemmyusa.com
quantumtickler@hilariouschaos.com
quantumtickler@feddit.org
quantumtickler@lemmy.myserv.one

To the mods of this comm, I understand this isn't a post complaining about a mod action taken against me. It's hardly even a complaint against a mod, although he does mod a handful of communities. I know it's a hard-to-prove personal message that the accused will deny sending or say was a joke he told a troll, his word vs mine. But this is beyond the usual actions mods take. This is abuse of the fediverse, harrassment, ban evasion, and vote manipulation.

I believe the situation to be self evident even without this message that the users who frequent DonaldJMusk's comms are primarily him with a new username on a new server and they're leaking out into other communities with ill intent.

If action is to be taken against this post, I ask that it be locked and not deleted.

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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sorry but this is out of scope for this community. Also y'all can't behave. Reminder that the burden of proof is on the accuser. You can't prove a negative (i.e. "prove such-and-such isn't Universal Monk")

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Sometimes when I feel like a failure or I’m not applying myself enough in life, then I read shit like this and realize I’m doing just fine .

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Considering we're not anything like the users who spin bots to harass people, we're probably doing pretty okay. I'm weird but I'm not that weird.

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[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It's kind of funny that he thinks people don't know that he's a reactionary wet fart. Anyone who watches the stupid side of the threadiverse with any kind of regularity can see the pattern.

He thinks he's being subtle, but Lemmy smells out right-wing bullshit better than most places on the Web. Nobody likes what he's selling.

[-] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

The type of person who joined lemmy because they were tired of propoganda is not about to fall for that same proproganda, especially to this mf who think he is being subtle

[-] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 0 points 10 months ago

He's after a captive audience because we know better. He thinks his ideas, or maybe just his chaos, is more acceptable when said by somebody that isn't him but NOBODY is buying his anti-Luigi comments.

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, this place isn't Reddit; there's not a culture of ironic fascism to hide behind on Lemmy/ Piefed.

It's part of why I like it here.

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[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 points 10 months ago

Obligatory fuck UniversalMonk and his stupid AI character in each of his accounts' pfp. Dude is easily the worst parts of the fediverse wrapped up in a shit bow. Just block lemmy.today its a fascist instance. Same with the lemmyusa.today one or whatever.

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 10 months ago

The bigger problem here is that lemmy.today is being used as a gateway for astroturfing. That's the issue that needs fixing here.

[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

I picked Lemmy.today because it allows me to block instances instead of the admins deciding which to defed from. But I do acknowledge that it allows a lot of freaks in.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 10 months ago

Aussie.zone lets you block instances too. And it's not facist.

[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Are the admins of lemmy.today shown to be fascist? I haven't heard anything about that. I guess if you consider them allowing Monk to do this, they're at least allowing it

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 0 points 10 months ago

Hi, Admin from lemmy.today here. I'm certainly not a fascist and I wouldn't be associated with any instance or participate on an Admin Team that is.

Speaking of Admin Teams I think every member of ours (including me) has separately investigated the accusation that DJM and UM are the same person and to date none of us have come up with anything. We have engaged with several Lemmy users from other instances who claimed to have proof but none of them provided anything other than conjecture and accusation.

If you, or anyone else, actually has some proof feel free to message any member of the lemmy.today admin team.

[-] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My real life is so boring compared to user's made-up stories about me. lol

I sorta wanna be the top secret CIA/Mossad/Russia/China spy that so many here accuse me of being. Yet somehow, someway, I had to shovel snow off my sidewalk today because of this freak snowstorm. I'm a freakin' superspy, surely The Agency can pay for someone to do that for me! What the heck?

All information wants to be free.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago

Maybe someday they'll show it to the public. But alas, it's theirs to hide.

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for posting this. UniversalMonk is a cancerous cunt.

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[-] Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just a reminder to this individual.

You have to make dozens of clone accounts to make it appear as though your opinion is agreed with.

We don't. Nice cope.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It’s that no-lifer, UniversalMonk. How do people not know this? That dude threatened me in PM. It’s what got him banned among other things.

[-] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I posted about this a month or so ago. I only uncovered PapaSkwat at the time. DJM was supposedly targeted by a downvote botnet months ago and he suspected a !PapaSkwat@lemy.lol, but considering how he's letting a user with that name post in his comms I'm willing to bet that DonaldJMusk did it to himself to garner pity.

Well, he certainly has my pity.

[+] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 1 points 10 months ago

Admin of tucson.social here - when UM signed up at tucson.social he made some crucial mistakes that made him easy to identify as a bot. Unfortunately, since this affects my security posture, I'm not keen on publicly posting what it is as he still makes the same mistakes.

However, let me add this - there are multiple places we should be validating are accessed from the same IP in a registration flow - all to many bot farms centralize certain aspects of their operations and use the same IP every time for only certain parts of a given flow.

I'll also add that many admins are either stupid about site security, or actively complicit in the bot problem.

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[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm an Admin on lemmy.today and the accusation that DJM is UM (and others) occasionally comes up. Both I and @mrmanager@lemmy.today have looked into it and neither of us have ever been able to find any kind of proof.

I've engaged with several Lemmy users who supposedly had proof but they were unable to provide anything better than what OP has up above. It's always loose conjecture and "trust me, bro".

Yes the DJM account is annoying but that's not enough to get banned from our instance.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

First of all- BULLSHIT. I have brought evidence to you and you chose to dismiss it.

And I told you- you could have talked to JordanLund, he’s got the proof. You chose not to. You’re protecting him.

[-] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 0 points 10 months ago

Ok, now do DonaldJMusk and the other dozen accounts.

I know you can't because of them being on other servers that aren't playing ball but that kinda feels like the point.

You're just the bartender, but once this conversation is over I'm done with Lemmy. Not your instance, all of Lemmy. He's following and harassing me everywhere and the most you can do is call him annoying.

Fuck you.

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 0 points 10 months ago

Ok, now do DonaldJMusk and the other dozen accounts.

When I say "DJM" I am referring to DonaldJMusk.

He’s following and harassing me everywhere and the most you can do is call him annoying.

You obviously have another account because the one you're commenting from is only 6 hours old, has just 1 post (this one) and only 17 comments (all in here). I checked because I wanted to see one of these accounts harassing you and look into it. Unfortunately there's nothing for me to see so there's nothing I can do.

My suggestion would be to report the user accounts that are causing you grief to the admins of the accounts home instance and then block them. Takes like 15 seconds to do both of those actions.

Fuck you.

Sadly my wife isn't into sharing, otherwise I might be interested. 😘

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[-] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I bet this person has dozens of friends whom they hang out with on a regular basis, a successful career, active sex life with a loving partner and proud parents.

This person is definitely not some self isolating weirdo that beats off to anime 4-8 times a day on a light week.

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Hey hey now don't insult people that beat off to anime 8 times a day like that

[-] IndieGoblin@lemmy.4d2.org 0 points 10 months ago

Is this a crazy tankie or a crazy Nazi?

[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Hedge your bets and call them a crazy misanthropic authoritarian.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

How do you identify sock puppets? Are they all the same IP?

[-] cowfodder@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

In UM/DJT's case it's more that his writing style (misspelled word salad) gives him away.

[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

"Thanks, friend!"

[-] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They post mainly in comms he or another sock puppet of his mods
Any comment against his post/comment is responded with:
- "I didn't write the article"
- "I like the article"
- "Lemmy will hate this"
Extremely authoritarian, contrarian
Taking over small, abandoned comms like WNBA, science, greenparty, etc.
Lies in the modlog saying you were trolling, serial downvoting, ban evading, etc
Telling other people how they feel about things
Posting in Positivity comms and lamenting the people who downvote everything he posts
Judging people by how they vote, posts lemvotes.org like it's some kinda gotcha
"Thanks, friend!"

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