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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[–] 105 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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 .

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 67 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 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

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago

    I'd just like to add that piefed.social, Rimu has already banned a lot of these accounts.

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I tagged a couple more a while back that I thought might be him.

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    PhilipsHurtFeelings and WilliamFBuckley are on my short list too. I have my suspicions about barrygoldwater, his trans best friend. Any account that has ever posted in a greenparty comm or there's a third_party one out there now too he's started.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Barrygoldwater is a bot associated with UM. UM also is associated with CM0002 from an IP standpoint given the last "bot signup attack" I experienced. (Fun fact they use barrygoldwater in their email they use to sign up from)

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  • [–] 24 points 11 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 11 months ago* (1 child)
    • 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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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago

    Yeah before I really knew who he was and what he was doing I'd comment on his posts, mainly because I don't like letting obviously misleading right wing bullshit to just stand unopposed, but his responses were always "I like this." The post could have been "DJT punted a newborn baby" and he'd reply "I like what Trump is doing." So I gave up commenting on anything he posts.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

    From an Admin perspective, most botnets do a good job of distributing most of their traffic. But the key is they don't distribute ALL of their traffic.

    From a user perspective my advice is generally "if it quacks like a duck"...

    That is, is the persona that of an extreme stereotype? Are they overly contrarian? Is what they are doing destructive to those who claim similar identities? Then it's likely a sockpuppet.

    And if it isn't - oh well, treat them like one anyways - it's better for society that way.

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