That moment when, if I ever get banned from the ML instance, one might as well tell me to treat it as an extension of the act of fleeing while entrusting Archive Today and the victim to relay this message (totally becoming of the spokespeople for the people’s liberation, /s also I would not voluntarily remove a thread of mine, so if this is gone by the time you get the archive…).

I consider myself a typical Orwellian person within the ML instance (fun fact, stands for Marxist-Leninist) who believes in the validity of debate, diplomacy, and standing up for oneself, having signed up for ML because the others were overcrowded when I was led to see Reddit as bad news due to the API (yet here I am). If I don’t want to engage with someone, I leave, and if someone disobeys the rules of something I’m the admin of (not any instance), I ban them with tools already at my disposal (as opposed to actual attacks using tools not anyone’s business, and that was after banning her). Sadly this isn’t everyone. Worth mentioning on behalf of someone afraid of breaking rules against block evasion/retaliation, being the Orwellian I am who won’t stand for things like the creed-based/LGBT discrimination I see. I see this (unauthorized username revelation and a false excuse of finding a rabbit hole) and I think “what’s next, will admins threaten to reveal our passwords as the norm in due time”. The US is on the verge of banning Tiktok for such shit, and here we are thinking of ourselves as invincible, like some cult.

When someone then mentions it on Reddit with her permission (and yes I have permission too), he shows up, claims she has the same name on 20 sites (when the dox that anyone can read clearly shows otherwise, and I did doublecheck his new claims, they’re false again), and tries to demoralize the thread. I’m ashamed personal attacks and stealing info/photos is the norm for my brethren. And I’d bet a pretty big wager to prove me wrong, just to see if people would think they can.

This is out of hand, can we either overhaul admins or defederate ML considering all the threats of banishments make it dead weight? Because I feel like a sanction is in order.