Today I noticed a huge wall of spam from UniversalMonk from 2 different accounts and didn’t initially think much of it and blocked their communities but more spam came from different communities.
At this point I checked and saw that they had created several communities which then led me down the rabbit hole to discover that their posts had almost entirely covered the new posts page of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee. Later on I discovered that they’re posting right-wing propaganda and misinformation from breitbart, foxnews you name it.
He’s already caused and stirred shit 2 months ago and clearly I can see why now.
At this point it’s difficult to believe that UniversalMonk will learn proper netiquette in: not post spamming, being considerate to others, and not sharing right-wing extremist content that no one wants.
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That mf is still around? And now they’re spamming right wing nazi stuff, despite definitely for sure being a legitimate honest 3rd party Jill Stein Stan? My gosh, say it isn’t so!
There is nothing for them to learn about “netiquette”, they are a cancerous wart intentionally participating in bad faith with the entire fediverse.
It seems like every other day they are posting from a new instance.
removed by mod
Not as much as you’d think.
Parent bullet point is the user. Child bullet points are communities they run/ran
- https://hilariouschaos.com/u/universalmonk
- https://futurology.today/u/universalmonk
- https://lemdro.id/u/universalmonk
- https://lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org/u/universalmonk
- https://lemmy.radio/u/universalmonk
- https://eviltoast.org/u/universalmonk
- https://sh.itjust.works/u/universalmonk
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/talesfromthecrypticlemmy
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/swp
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/pierpontctc
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/politicsunfiltered
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/solarpunkstrength
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/fitchicks
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/lostscreams
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/libertariansocialism
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/esperanto
- https://slrpnk.net/u/universalmonk
- https://mander.xyz/u/universalmonk
- https://midwest.social/u/universalmonk (BANNED)
- https://lemm.ee/u/universalmonk
- https://beehaw.org/u/universalmonk (BANNED)
- https://lemmy.world/u/universalmonk (BANNED)
- https://lemmy.world/c/politicsunfiltered (TAKEN OVER BY ANOTHER MOD)
- https://lemmy.world/c/PierpontCTC
- https://lemmy.world/c/transracial
- https://lemmy.world/c/byupathway
- https://lemmy.world/c/byuidaho
- https://lemmy.world/c/swp
- https://lemmy.world/c/talesfromthecrypticlemmy
- https://lemmy.world/c/amileaday
- https://lemmy.world/c/murderhornet_100
So this is the downside of the fediverse. Having the block the same person 18 times?
That’s a long list
removed by mod
The very fact that someone like this is “still around “ is a damned red flag about mods at this point, probably?
The mods of c/politics were so soft on this asshole that we were forced to create c/politics_no_um.
What?
I SAID, THE MODS OF C/POLITICS WERE SO SOFT ON UM THAT WE HAD TO CREATE C/POLITICS_NO_UM
!politics_no_um@lemmy.world , wild
They are at best a one-person propaganda shop, and at worst part of a targeted influence campaign by other actors.
I’ve written many times on this user in the lead-up to the US election, when there was cumulative evidence they were spamming content meant to split the left vote. I welcome moderate or right-leaning good faith discussion, but this user is not that. They sealion any responses with canned / apparently-LLM-assisted non-answers to legitimate constructive comments and debate, apparently to drive up “engagement” on their posts. I’ve read probably 30 threads where this happened - they do not answer direct questions or engage in actual debate, but immediately go into “I’m a victim” mode and turn the debate into a performative martyred “oppression” by everyone else. Effectively every response by them I’ve read is a misdirection and nonsense.
My strongly held opinion is that they are a bad faith actor, no matter what their motive or tools actually are. They are literally the only Lemmy user I’ve come across that I can say, without reservation, deserves a perma-ban.
Yeah, it’s a common pattern with the “victim” crap. Same stuff I was just testing, actually. (Check my comment history with UM over the last day or so; re: define propaganda)
Very nonsensical responses, no discussion and just absolute crap posts. If it is LLM assisted, it’s tuned to respond to people like they are hating on the acual article and UM. It’s an easy formula: post a shit article and just argue with everyone about anything while assuming they are commenting against the post.
But I have met people just like that IRL and it usually comes with some serious mental disorders or poorly prescribed medications. (I am being extremely serious with that comment and no joke is intended, at all.) It’s probably for that person’s benefit to get kick-banned at all turns. Assuming it’s actually one real person, social media is not where they need to be spending their time.
you have no proof for any of these claims.
Here’s the thing: without this thread, I might never have become aware of this user or their activities. Are you sure that what you’re doing isn’t counterproductive and giving them more undeserved attention?
I can see what you mean by that although for this case in an odd manner you actually want to highlight this problem.
This is another parallel system that was shown in this crazy GDC talk: 1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
For background context Alex Schwartz and Ziba Scott launched premium mobile games to the Google Play Store in 2013 which unfortunately didn’t “help in making our money back and being able to make enough money to make the next game”. After having explored the storefront and finding nefarious apps and junk reskined clones everywhere they decided to intentionally flood the Google Play Store with junk slot machine games as a joke/experiment.
"There was a point in here that I don’t think was drilled home as hard as it could have been which was… if people are sneaking by with garbage the thing that we did was to put a huge neon sign with an arrow pointing at ourselves and the garbage next to us; illuminating the entire underbelly of dark weird App Store shit and so the idea that if you do it at scale clearly they’re(Google’s) going to notice and clearly they’re(Google’s) going to change the terms of service slowly to ice you out.
Hopefully others went down with us in the wake of that. Like we provided the perfect targeted spot to drop the missile uh so hopefully, hopefully that helped get rid of duplicate apps that were also in the area."
I agree with you. In this case it’s time to bring this up. I quietly blocked monk months ago because I was tired of seeing his shit in my feed, but I didn’t want to bring attention to his inflammatory posts. But that clearly hasn’t worked on a wider level. He’s still posting sketchy stuff and annoying other people here. Sometimes you have to call people out and the wider community has to act, even at the risk of drawing attention to the problem users.
I’ve come across him before, I think he moderates a right wing Lemmy community I’m a member of.
I wouldn’t care so much if he wasn’t such a bitch about it. You want to post that stuff than own up and admit it. Fucking cryptofascist.
This fucker is still around eh? I remember him single-handedly sowing discord in c/politics around the time of the election with incessant pro 3rd party spam and insane tirades of sealioning - also report abuse if I remember right. Or at least taunting people into breaking rules and subsequently reporting them. I was amazed at the time that he was allowed to remain unbanned for ages in that sub when it was very clear what he was doing.
What’s wrong with advocating for 3p vote?
Did the party komissars prohibit these discussions in DNC controlled subs?
Everyone wanted to know how it would go for the “I just want people to support a 3rd party” folks after the election… Well, now you know!
Apologies I don’t really understand what you mean by that
I’m guessing this is a referral to the US election?
He was banned on lemmy.world for excessive Jill Stiein/3rd party spam prior to the election and the discussion at the time was “What will they do after the election?” Well, now you know. Right Wing all along.
ahh I see
Thank you for the clarification👍
I want to push back on this just a little. Clearly UM isn’t the bastion of consistent good thought, but others that were maligned like return2ozma have been pretty consistent in what they post.
This is to say, “Great, one person is a fuckup. Why are we attributing this to the whole group?”
Becuase 3p vote is the threat to neo libaral regimes… They requires polarization and two choices to lock us into endless cultures warz lesser of two evils, trust me bro vote for my guy…
They DNC would rather you vote for Trump than 3p lol
Still here chief!
In that case I also nominate @jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world who pretends to be left but posts an incredible amount of conservative propaganda and misinformation in all his little communities.
Ask them about Ukraine to get a good idea of what they stand for.
I agree with the sentiment but this here is not a complaints forum.
Please report that user and his communities to the admins of the instances he’s registered at. A quick look at the sidebars of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee would suggest that their admins banning him is a slam dunk.
Maybe ask at !support@lemm.ee and !main@sh.itjust.works what to do?
On the grounds of !fediverse not being a complaints forum, I’m going to lock this post.
Why are we giving this person their stage again? How probable is it that the instance admins of the like 15 instances they have accounts on will all collectively ban him? It’s just your average nazi spammer on the internet. You’ve read that “bio” this person has. Even if they get banned, they’ll come back just on principle. Just block him like any sane person would do, leave him shadow banned like that with his nazi friends, and call it a day.
shadow banned
Do we have that on Lemmy?
No, but the more people block them, the less up votes and visibility they will receive for their posts.
On the other hand, letting them free has the risk of making this place a Nazi bar: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar
Posting lying terrorist dens like breitbart or fox as news is ban-worthy on its own.
oh, that tard’s still around? I blocked him months ago.
I can affirm my experience has been all the better for it, so yes, the rest of the fediverse should throw the Nazi out of the bar.
Seems like he does get banned frequently by mods, given he has like 10 accounts created on a number of servers in the past few months
Based on the number of dislikes I have to imagine that someone out there might have made reports which were probably and unfortunately ‘handled/managed’ by UniversalMonk as that’s how the current moderation system works:
Currently [as of Jan 12, 2025]
If a report is sent, both the community moderator(s) and admin(s) are able to see and handle the report.- This has the unfortunate side effect where if the moderator has no qualms and dismisses the report it can become unlikely that anyone would know what’s going on.
The user who made the report might then unfortunately think that the admin(s) are condoning the post/content that’s shared on their platform which might not actually be the case.
At this point I’m just going to ask that: if anyone has any posts or comments that they’d like to report, please feel free to also shoot me a Direct Message (DM). I’m going to preempt and say that while I can’t promise that I’ll respond immediately, I can at least guarantee that I’ll reply back saying that I have seen your message.
Oh wow. UM really is just a malignancy that refuses to go away, isn’t he? I’m all for allowing different opinions but if someone keeps peeing in the pool, sooner or later you stop letting him in.
I had actually forgotten about that guy. I blocked him a few months ago because I got tired of his incessant and biased spam.
