Stamets

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With how Rimu has been behaving recently, I wouldn't be surprised if he just started screaming that the vulnerability doesn't exist if you brought him up to him privately. He doesn't listen to anyone but himself and pressure on his ego. Reasonable admins get reasonable responses. Tyrants can cry about it.

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2w ago

Blaze has lot all respect and credibility from me. He will criticize what he does not like and dismiss criticism of what he does. I used to think he was reasonable and at least listen to others but, from what I can tell, all he does is pretend to sit on the fence while having some pretty strong opinions with his toes in the grass.

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2w ago

Brother, Rimu is an enemy of the fediverse. Why? Because he re-created reddit. He basically reinvented shadow banning, controls the narrative of his instance, actively keeps spreading misinformation about other instances and users, will actively suppress certain instances using his platform and lashes out against criticism like a petty tyrant.

I'm tired of this nonsense that "We're all here to leave reddit!" Yes. We are here to leave reddit. So stop giving Spez 2.0 a pass.

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3w ago

Oh there are a bunch of great ones if you wanna stay on Lemmy, and I do recommend staying on Lemmy at the moment. At least until a De-Rimu'd fork of Piefed is available. He's been having... a time lately and that time seems to involve a lot of misunderstandings at best or outright misinformation at worst. Combine that with weaponizing his platform... eh.

For Lemmy, Dbzer0 is a good one, as proven by the fact that they have handled this with more grace than anyone else at the LW team. Quok.ka (I'm probably fucking up where the period is or missing a letter) is also a solid one with great admins. Blahaj.zone has really protective admins if you're queer and tired of dealing with bigots. Those admins tend to be a wall that deals with a ton of shit and deserve all the praise for the crap they see to protect others from. I mean all admins do but them especially with the level of bigotry. Lemy.lol just had cm0002 take over so that'll be a good spot for memes, why I started posting there recently. Lemmy.ca seems to be pretty reasonable.

I do not personally recommend lemmy.ml but I don't condemn those who use it or the admins. Just personal differences which is how lemmy be. Startrek.website has actively abusive admins and wouldn't recommend there either. Hexbear is.... hexbear.

I'm sure there are others off hand but my brain is currently a soup

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3w ago

Rimu is single handedly generating so much misinformation and nonsense that essentially anyone else who works on Piefed alongside of him is becoming radioactive. Not sure how much I want to trust someone who is willing to help further Rimu's behavior. Working on Piefed used to be a bullet point and it is rapidly turning into an asterisk.

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3w ago

Not the first thing I expected to see when I opened my inbox this morning

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3w ago

Perfect

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3w ago

I dunno, given his boss he might just end up offering that as a kinky extra.

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

Really not a fan of repeatedly seeing these oddly specific posts jumping to conclusions and “just asking questions.”

This type of disengenuous behavior has a specific label called 'Sealioning'. It is against lemmy.world rules, which this community says to follow. Section 1.1 specifically hyperlinks to Sealioning. Yet this post remains.

That and the fact that, strangely, all my critical comments of Rimu are not visible on piefed.social despite my posts and other comments being visible. No removals in the modlog either.

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

That comment will be invisible on piefed.social as Rimu has sidestepped the modlog and personally silenced me for criticising him <3

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

He also has silenced my account from piefed.social. None of my comments are federating to that instance yet there is nothing in the modlog about me. So, Rimu is out here complaining about the modlog problem but he's actively sidestepping it. He's silencing users without any reason. So... he's shadowbanning people.

Are we SURE he isn't Spez?

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

I have grown so weary of your flagrant lies, Rimu.

This is nonsense. Stop posting lies based off of your own misunderstandings. Stop using this community as your own personal drama cope.

Edit: Lol this comment, and none of my recent ones criticizing Rimu, are visible on piefed.social. Hmm. I wonder why. You really going to complain about people running things as a fiefdom and then act the way that you are?

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

I would concur with this assessment.

I've not had many run ins with Rimu myself but the ones that I have had have been... tense. For example, he said that he believes that Lemmy devs should have added guardrails to Lemmy in order to stop it being, as he described, "overrun with memes". So he hardbaked in something that marked meme communities as "low effort". He doesn't like reaction gifs so he hardbaked in something that gave negative reputation to people using reaction gifs. Oh yeah, and he made up the whole reputation garbage all over again so certain users could be more valuable than others.

Yeah. It really does feel like he is trying to be the king of the fediverse and slip his opinions in wherever he can. Then when someone notices it, he fights against it before eventually adding on a toggle.

Edit: Only made more clear by the fact that my comments critical of him are not visible on piefed.social.

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

What I’m saying is that even though admins know there were some opinions in the software, they still started Piefed instances. And that’s in a world where Lemmy exists.

I did not state whether or not Piefed.world was created before or after it was found out that Piefed is littered with Rimu opinions. You are making a conclusion you simply cannot make.

In other words, every instance admins assesses whether the additional Piefed features make it worth it to accept the opinionated aspect of the software.

He said, off of a false conclusion from a random assumption.

Doing something, even imperfectly, but listening to the users, still seem valuable to a lot of people.

Brother, you are not listening to a word I have been fucking saying.

He's not doing it imperfectly. HE'S BEING DISINGENOUS. If I were to talk to you and give you a ton of shit, fill all of it with some useful stuff but the rest is hyper opinionated, you'd expect me to tell you what was opinion and what isn't. Rimu doesn't. People have to discover it and then hold his fire to the flame. That is not listening to feedback over things that you knew was a problem. Especially when he knows it is opinionated and then puts it through anyway without informing anyone, without making a note of it, and expecting others to comb through his garbage and hold him accountable. And you are saying that is perfectly acceptable behavior?

Brother, you have lost essentially all of my respect here. As stated elsewhere, because you started two conversations with me at once, I am not continuing this with you.

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

The same arguments are made when an overwhelming amount of paperwork is dumped on someone during discovery in a trial. It's not a good argument then and it's not a good argument now. If you have to go through and check every single thing he's done to find the hidden things he's put in there without announcing then that is not transparent. You simply cannot change the fact that Rimu overwhelmingly puts his opinions into Piefed as a whole and then leaves it for everyone else to find the opinion and then tell him to add a toggle. He fights against it before eventually adding a toggle. Meanwhile, damage has already been done for however long with his garbage running rampant without anyone noticing it.

If he is not willing to point out what is opinion and what is code then I am not willing to fact-check every piece of his work to find what is code and what is crap. He's being disingenous and underhanded.

I am not continuing this conversation.

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

So Kaplan knew about the “garbage”, but still wanted to go on and keep running Piefed.world?

Either Kaplan’s judgement is supposed to be relied on, or not, but that argument seems weird to say the least.

Others are doing the same thing. This isn't "weird" or bad judgment. I don't like Kaplan but they did nothing wrong here.

So it is opted. That people have to convince Rimu to make changes isn’t really an argument.

Yes. If you skip over the entire problem, it does appear as if there is no problem. My issue is that he had to have his feet held to the fire over something that minor because he did not disclose it in the first place. If someone keeps trying to sneak shit past my face and then keeps backing down and going "Uwu sorry I add opt out" but then doesn't add opt out for the other opinionated stuff that was not discovered yet, why would I applaud them? They're still doing the bad thing.