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

https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    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.

      Edit: typos

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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

    • Spzi@lemm.ee
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      Stories like these can make it less likely that other people contribute to the code, making the platform grow slower, which affects all instances.

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    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.

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      You might want to reinvestigate. @cannotsleep420 is the one that made those comments and they are a dev.

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        In the recent Lemmy developer update, there’s a reference to one Lemmy developer, SleeplessOne1917.

        I found some horrifying comments from this user.

        The post then lists comments from /u/cannotsleep420@lemmygrad.ml, however the text over the name is SleeplessOne (without the number on the end). This account is also on lemmygrad, the lemmy devs’ main accounts are on lemmy.ml. Do you have anything to verify that they’re the same person, or that they are another dev? Because I see no “CannotSleep420” mentioned on the github page. The main two are actually /u/dessalines@lemmy.ml and /u/nutomic@lemmy.ml.

        Next you’ll be telling me that Hollywood actress Margot Robbie also moderates round these parts.

        Edit: They probably are the same person.

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            They “contributed to the project”, that doesn’t mean they have any authority over lemmy development, as the top of the post is suggesting. “Contributing to the project” could mean just about anything.

            While I wouldn’t completely discount the possibility that they are the same person, this post provides no evidence of that. HOWEVER, this comment suggests they might well be!!

            TBF the future lemmy developer isn’t too far off. I’ve been discussing being added to the NLNet grant along with another person, phiresky, with Dessalines and Nutomic.

            @TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com you might be interested in that.

        • TWeaK@lemm.ee
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          No worries. A couple other things:

          • /c/community@instance and @community@instance will work for communities.
          • /u/user@instance is instance agnostic but will not generate a mention to the user’s inbox.
          • [linktext](http://instance/u/user) will link to the user’s instance only, but it sends a mention to them. You can also do this by starting to type @user@instance and selecting the user from the dropdown box (on the website, not necessarily in apps).
          • The different apps for lemmy don’t necessarily always work correctly in line with the website, but they’ll catch up.
          • Each post is actually primarily hosted at that user’s instance, then federated from there. So if you’re a lemmy.world user and post in a lemmy.ml community, your post will actually post at lemmy.world first and then federate. It isn’t necessarily hosted in the community’s instance. The same is true for every comment - hence why you won’t see comments from users in an instance yours isn’t federated with, even if they are federated with the post’s instance and can comment in the thread.
          • You can’t really do anything with posts or comments to jump across instances, as each instance assigns a different number to the same content. Hopefully one day they’ll change it so the url is more like http://instance/post/123456@hostinstance in everywhere but the federated host instance. But it’s all still in early development.
  • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
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    What a creepy asshole. He should probbaly get back to /pol/, seems like he’d fit on there better.

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    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.

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        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.

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          I don’t expect it to be safe, and I do expect to fight against authoritarian propaganda when I see it.

        • GONADS125@lemmy.world
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          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…

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            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.

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        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.

        • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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          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.

      • froggers@lemmy.world
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        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.

      • Kofu@lemmy.ml
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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.

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    You know, I came to lemmy because I was disgusted with the reddit admins and devs. And this shit just is not helping.

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      For the most part, Lemmy instances are separate from the developers. But the great thing about ActivityPub and the fediverse is that we can move platforms and keep the same content. Kbin can subscribe to the same communities that Lemmy can.

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        Yeah, this is one of the best parts of the fediverse. It’s not just another plattform like Reddit. It’s a bunch of Plattforms of various services, even Lemmy is just hundreds of small Reddits that connect to each other. Meaning we are not beholden to one person like on Reddit to participate in the fediverse.

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      Understand that the Lemmy devs do not have ultimate power over your instance, and that your instance admins may feel very differently to them

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      The difference here is that these people aren’t really running the show. They’re in charge of the main development branch, but that’s just back end code, and it is (or should be) reviewed by every admin when they use it to implement their instance. Development can be adopted or forked by other people, should politics get in the way.

      It’s the morals of your own instance and its admin that are most important, these are the ones synonymous with reddit’s staff. In fact, it’s possible for the instance to put whatever code they want up. It can easily be non-standard to official lemmy, so you really are trusting them rather than the main lemmy devs.

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        OP user joined two hours ago, and this subject is literally the only thing OP has posted about, on four different forums.

        Is it too much to ask for minimum requirements for posting in a community?

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      IMO believing that someone’s work can become tainted by their beliefs is a form of magical thinking.

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    I thought we were already aware that the devs are deranged lmao

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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          Code does not exist in isolation from the community of developers that produced it. Who we collaborate with defines us, to some degree.

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            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”.

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    The Lemmy devs are tankies, they also deny chinese human rights violations and deny genocides.

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    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.

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      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.

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    1st & 2nd of these are inside a post at news@hexbear.net (not lemmygrad.ml)

    it has 490 upvotes, is locked & it is radically pro Palestine and anti Israel.

    Not defending this user, just looking at the context.

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    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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      This conflict doesn’t exist in isolation. This is part of a larger geo-political struggle with the decline of US influence in the region being taken-up by Iran. Much of this could have been avoided if the US never invaded Iraq. If only I had a time machine…

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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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          Hamas doesn’t have the capacity without Iran. Iran has occupied a power vacuum created by the US from the US policy in that region.

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    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.