When I was first made a mod 2 years ago I banned a troll for bad behavior.
Since then they have created HUNDREDS of Lemmy accounts specifically attacking me.
We had to come up with new rules and bots to deal with their fragile psyche.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2025
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That's why I keep making new accounts too - not that I could follow someone around but so that they can't follow me. It's more of a privacy thing in my case though. They wont know if I've blocked them so even if they are following me around they'll just be shouting into the void and it never even reaches me. They're just wasting their time and I'm more than fine with that.
Like when Sony removed Linux from PS3 and Anonymous took down multiple of their sites in response? Nope, never took part in that.
I was the target. It was an IRL one that moved to the internet.
I tried to get people to use each other's preferred pronouns. The hate didn't really ramp up until I brought up facts and evidence.
It had all the elements of your standard hate mob, with trolling, doxxing, threats, and all that.
Did anything happen to the people who sent threats?
Not that I know of. I walked away and it was anti-climactic. I believe one is living in a broken down van and thinks Elon Musk talks to him directly, not that poverty and mental health issues are anything to make fun of.
I've said things that hexbear and lemmygrad weren't too keen on few times. Other than that, not that I know of.
I was recently targeted by an internet hate mob.
Reason? They simply didn't like someone pointing out how they behaved too closely to another userbase on another platform that they didn't like.
So, I was targeted by about 9 people who dogpiled me and have proven me right that they did, in fact, behave like another userbase from another platform behaved. They were just too delusional to see it. You just find trashy people in just about anywhere. Doing nothing for themselves and think they're contributing to something because they act as enforcers for what they perceive as 'righteous' in the communities that they're in.
I seem to recall reviewing LOIC for a protest in the mid 2000's, but I chickened out.