That’s why I keep making new accounts too - not that I could follow someone around but so that they can’t follow me. It’s more of a privacy thing in my case though. They wont know if I’ve blocked them so even if they are following me around they’ll just be shouting into the void and it never even reaches me. They’re just wasting their time and I’m more than fine with that.
Reason? They simply didn’t like someone pointing out how they behaved too closely to another userbase on another platform that they didn’t like.
So, I was targeted by about 9 people who dogpiled me and have proven me right that they did, in fact, behave like another userbase from another platform behaved. They were just too delusional to see it. You just find trashy people in just about anywhere. Doing nothing for themselves and think they’re contributing to something because they act as enforcers for what they perceive as ‘righteous’ in the communities that they’re in.
When I was first made a mod 2 years ago I banned a troll for bad behavior.
Since then they have created HUNDREDS of Lemmy accounts specifically attacking me.
We had to come up with new rules and bots to deal with their fragile psyche.
That’s why I keep making new accounts too - not that I could follow someone around but so that they can’t follow me. It’s more of a privacy thing in my case though. They wont know if I’ve blocked them so even if they are following me around they’ll just be shouting into the void and it never even reaches me. They’re just wasting their time and I’m more than fine with that.
Like when Sony removed Linux from PS3 and Anonymous took down multiple of their sites in response? Nope, never took part in that.
I’ve said things that hexbear and lemmygrad weren’t too keen on few times. Other than that, not that I know of.
I was recently targeted by an internet hate mob.
Reason? They simply didn’t like someone pointing out how they behaved too closely to another userbase on another platform that they didn’t like.
So, I was targeted by about 9 people who dogpiled me and have proven me right that they did, in fact, behave like another userbase from another platform behaved. They were just too delusional to see it. You just find trashy people in just about anywhere. Doing nothing for themselves and think they’re contributing to something because they act as enforcers for what they perceive as ‘righteous’ in the communities that they’re in.
I seem to recall reviewing LOIC for a protest in the mid 2000’s, but I chickened out.