In the recent Lemmy developer update, there’s a reference to one Lemmy developer, SleeplessOne1917.
I found some horrifying comments from this user.
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649200 - “There is no such thing as an Israeli civilian. All settlers are valid targets.”
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649472 - “15 year olds are military age. That makes them valid targets for killing.”
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649732 - “… There is no such thing as a zionoid civilian. Everything that moves and isn’t Palestinian is a valid target. …”
Webarchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171047/https://lemmy.ml/u/CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
Edit: New comment from the user “Cry more. Israelis need to be eliminated. Death to Israel, and death to Amerikkka!”
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171510/https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2592588
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171739/https://lemmygrad.ml/post/750810
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171907/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4569805
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009172817/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4413706
Friendly reminder that it’s very easy to sympathize with the plight of the Palestinians without glorifying terrorists.
For a similar example, I support the cause of a United Ireland but that doesn’t mean I support the IRA. Be better than that.
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True, but there are not very many people contributing a lot of code, so this guy has a lot of sway over which items get prioritized out of the massive backlog.
And as a mod, I’d really like the few people coding to produce some expanded moderation tools… so I can easily spot and address toxic comments like the ones this dev makes.
IMHO, this guy’s behavior feels like it conflicts with his current influence over Lemmy’s mod toolset.
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Ive been working on a soft fork of lemmy called Pangora to prioritize development on different areas that the main lemmy codebase has been neglecting (such as mod tools). Gives a different option than the main lemmy codebase for supporting development and as redundancy for if anything goes wrong (although not production ready atm as its still getting mostly set up) !pangora@programming.dev
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Really glad this exists. Thanks for all your work.
Stories like these can make it less likely that other people contribute to the code, making the platform grow slower, which affects all instances.
There is no indication whatsoever that @SleeplessOne1917 is the same person as @cannotsleep420. Jesus, people, stop pissing yourselves for the literal 30 seconds it took to fact check this bullshit claim.*edit: I took the liberty of finding the actual dev’s account: /u/SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml. It took a whole additional minute. You’re welcome
*edit 2: /u/NOT_RICK@lemmy.world has some links below that do indeed link /u/SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml to /u/CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml. Soooo, while I don’t regret my nearly infinite capacity for skepticism, but it looks like this story has some legs. Hat tip to NOT_RICK, who is adamantly not Rick.
You might want to reinvestigate. @cannotsleep420 is the one that made those comments and they are a dev.
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You can look up my other comment for more examples, but this one is the most clear:
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/750810
They may not be the same person, although I suspect they are as the lemmy.ml account isn’t active, but either way 420 is at a minimum a contributor
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I understand that. @cannotsleep420 is still in that Lemmy update thread mentioning development to-dos.
Feel free to share that thread link. In the meantime, here’s the actual dev account: /u/SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml. And their selfless unpaid work removing pedos from find-lemmy: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/3630011
Yeah they don’t use that account. It’s pretty clear to me they’re active on their lemmygrad account over the lemmy.ml one.
Here they are mentioning dev work:
https://lemmy.ml/comment/4413706
I deleted my previous response as it was a bit dickish. I stand corrected, this is pretty strong evidence.
All good, I’ve gone after people too hard too (got a mean comment deleted yesterday in fact, I was definitely wrong). It’s good to have scruples
@SleeplessOne1917 seems to be their GitHub handle. You can see this by going to one of the pull requests that are linked in the thread (e.g instance block feature)
@cannotsleep420 seems to be their lemmy handle. You can see this by going to the thread link the OP posted, in which that account is commenting about the UI tweaks.
Both accounts list their location as ‘Burgerland’(?) so they’re most likely the same dev. Plus the ‘SleeplessOne1917’ lemmy handle you linked has absolutely no activity.
You can also see @cannotsleep420 crossposting earlier lemmy changelogs that mention @SleeplessOne1917…
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Doesn’t work for me. @SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml does though
Nice tip, thank you. Still fumbling my way around…
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What a creepy asshole. He should probbaly get back to /pol/, seems like he’d fit on there better.
Lemmygrad and hexbear serve as a propaganda wing of for people that make being communist their whole life. You can block certain feds to clear out your feed.
I wouldn’t get riled up about it, they literaly say stuff to upset you so you react.
Lemmy.ml isn’t much better.
The Internet is not safe, just got wade through the shit to make it to something good them make a path toward it by getting rid of the noise.
I don’t expect it to be safe, and I do expect to fight against authoritarian propaganda when I see it.
All the drama and hateful trolls are extremely similar to the growing pains of reddit 15 years ago. The rational healthy users outnumber the hateful crazies, and that trend will continue as the userbase grows.
I hope…
I hope so too but I’m not optimistic. I was on Reddit before most people and it didn’t have anywhere this level of authoritarian propaganda.
It’s world’s better. But still chick full of Leninist. So still problematic because of that. On the whole though they don’t brigade like hexbear or lemmygrad. Hell a large swath of their users are ironically not leninists even. However, when you do find one that is Leninist yeah you’re gonna get toxic irrationality. But no worse than your average capitalist or neo-libertarian.
I just had several calm, rational comments deleted with no reason given. I can only assume it’s because I was correcting a lie that made the CCP look better. A bunch of other people’s comments got deleted in the same thread.
In other words, lemmy.ml had strict censorship in order to support an authoritarian government. It’s a cancer on the Fediverse.
How do I block an entire instance?
right now you can only block communities. if everything goes according to plan, instance block should arrive with the next update, which is supposedly 1 month away.
IIRC the next Lemmy update will have this feature.
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So I use Jebora on my android phone and if I go directly onto communities front page and a 3 dot icon on the top right side of the page it will say in the options 'block community" might have to block individually but there ain’t that many large communities that will have such a loud voice.
What a special piece of shit he is.
I thought we were already aware that the devs are deranged lmao
*hexbears: that’s why I’m here
I mean yeah, but I do like knowing who and in what way.
Anyone is able to contribute to the code. Are you saying we need background checks before contributions? Also as pointed out in another comment you didn’t prove any connection between the two usernames either.
Personally, I would accept a PR from a convicted murderer if the code was good. It would be a problem I would have to have meetings with this person but if he just submits code why would I care? There are no political opinions in code. It’s not like code written by a rapist somehow pollutes my codebase.
Yeah the code might be fine. But if I want to support the development of Lemmy, say with a donation, am I financially supporting a piece of shit?
I’m not saying every contributor has to be thoroughly vetted, or that I have to agree politically with every contributor. It just feels icky, and I get the concern users have.
I donate to Lemmy.world but that doesn’t go to this Lemmy dev in question, only Ruud and his team. You can donate to specific instance admins who aren’t batshit crazy hateful scumbags and support the growth of healthy instances.
Interesting point. Well, if it’s up to me I would even share the donations with this piece of shit. Because what do you mean by “supporting him”? Letting him earn some money by doing work? What’s the alternative? Letting him starve to death? Personally I’m against death penalty so I do believe that even the worst piece of shit has the right to work and earn living. And frankly, writing code seams to be perfect way for such a person to do it: they are not around other people so no one is in danger and they are not spreading his sick opinions. And people like this earning their living are better than society maintaining them out of our taxes.
It absolutely does not make anything ‘icky’, it’s a silly way to look at it, childish really. If a convicted murder bags your groceries is your food icky? If a child rapist cleans your street is the street icky?
And here we’re not talking about murder or rape, just some online posts. Opinions don’t taint code. I know people like to cancel everyone now but this is really getting absurd. The only “concern” users have is a concern that this week they didn’t get outraged enough and didn’t cancel enough people.
Code does not exist in isolation from the community of developers that produced it. Who we collaborate with defines us, to some degree.
Code is completely separate from the community. Community is formed by people and code is just bunch of instructions. What if a fascist forks your projects and adds features to it? It your code fascists now? Does your community support fascists? Of course not. And if a fascist submits a patch to your project and you accept it it does not mean you’re collaborating with fascists now and your projects is tainted. That’s just absurd. “You’re a bad person so I will not merge this bugfix, I will write the exact same fix by myself so that my code stays pure”.
The Lemmy devs are tankies, they also deny chinese human rights violations and deny genocides.
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It’s not something I think, it’s a fact.
I’m already on kbin :)
Did you just ask a Kbin user to delete their Lemmy account? LOL
Why should they tuck their tail instead of calling out the narrow-minded hateful idiots? They’re a sad little fringe minority.
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Idc about his political views. I’m still thankful he is talking the time to working on developing lemmy.
Right now there’s a million spicy takes on this conflict.
Good God man.
Just because there are competing perspectives does not mean that all perspectives are equally appropriate.
Just because someone does something that benefits you personally does not give them a free pass for being a fuck head
He made the comment on an instance that supports that kind of extreme speech. The comment was appropriate in the place that he made it. I don’t care if someone’s a fuck head its not a big deal to me.
I for one would prefer that the dev of the tools I use doesn’t celebrate the deaths of children just because of where they happened to be born. Calling that just a “spicy take” is ridiculous.
Let’s read it correctly, instead of distorting it. The quotes above argued that 15yr Olds are valid targets, not celebrating their death and not all all children. I realize the difference doesn’t matter much, but in discussion is better to be clear
“Everything that moves”
That’s a fine opinion to have.
Would you feel the same if he supported nazis putting jewish people into gas chambers?
Opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one.
I imagine you look into someone’s life deep enough, there is eventually something you are going to disagree ethically about.
I think that is why it is important to have the conversation, rather then pretend the issue doesn’t exist. Because that is what Israel has been doing for 20 years. It is also why the people of Israel and Palestine have bodies in the streets.
This is 20 years of inaction boiling over into one single event. We either learn the lesson, or continue in ignorance.
I’m sure some of the Foss software I use has had nazis contribute. It doesn’t worry me what a random non political figure says on the internet.
Nice job dodging my question bozo.
That’s not dodging your question. I answered that I don’t care. Actual nazi’s have made contributions to some of the technology we use today and you aren’t kicking up a stink about that.
this is not just some “political views” or a “spicy take” this is someone advocating for the murder of a group of people. you can’t just centrist your way out of this
War is dirty, always has been.
And the year/decade long war/geconide in Palestine/Israel? Sponsored by the west and an utter humanitarian shitshow.
Standing on their own, those statements are sure horrible. But you gotta see the grand picture, then you can only despair and perhaps turn your gaze away or you will be plagued by sleepless nights.
This is difficult. I don’t contribute code yet, but knowing that these kind of people might have a say in the development of Lemmy, I’m not sure I want to contribute. Maybe !pangora@programming.dev will be more welcoming… dunno.
Pease consider the opposite; if a fork is needed at some point in the future, we need people who are familiar with the codebase. It would be, for example, much better for 3 of 4 contributors to be sane than only 2 of 3.
Welp. This has been an education in how deranged this place is.
This place we are on right now is lemmy.ca. What does it say about it?
How about we stop both sides from killing people considering it’s been going on for hundreds of years and nothing has changed.
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Much of this could have been avoided if the US never invaded Iraq. If only I had a time machine…
Ehh. Lots of problems could be fixed by that, but not really this one.
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Playing neutral and proposing cease fire / peace-as-is in an asymmetric situation ultimately solidifies the stronger side.
But I very much like the intent.
