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.
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.
you have no proof for any of these claims.
It's very tempting to go back through your comment history, and drop a reply under every single comment that makes any kind of factual argument: "you have no proof for any of these claims", but life is short, so I won't. You can just imagine that I did, and post me a reply with the proof for all of it all together, if you like.
everyone knows how you "investigate" other users, so my guess is you already did look through my posts, and you saw most of what I do is demand evidence for specious claims.
I want you to fill in the blanks:
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if you have something to say, say it.