Submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to newcommunities@lemmy.world
!FediverseSlander@Piefed.social is a pointless drama comm for when you really need to vent about a user on the Fediverse spreading blatant and, most importantly, disprovable lies about another user. The lies being disputed can be about you, or they can be about someone else - just come with receipts of some sort both for the claimed lies, and to prove that what was said was a lie!
For when the salt in your life overfloweth, and you need to dispute some bullshit!
Kind of a meta comment, but I see you tagged the people in the post bodies, are we sure those pings work (as we know they don’t on Lemmy)?
If they don't, they don't. It's whatever in the end, at least from my pov. The point of the comm is primarily for venting and establishing the truth of a matter.
Informing the slanderers in question would be a nice option to have for those of us who want it, but not really core to the idea of the comm.
The point of the comm is primarily for venting and establishing the truth of a matter
You are having a laugh.
I’ll ping them just to be sure
Isn’t there already a comm called Drama? I’d just check it out to be nosy tbh
There's a Fediverse drama sub, but it's about recording rather than disproving drama, and doesn't allow drama to be posted by anyone involved in the drama.
This is more about disproving false claims that come about in the process of Fediverse drama, and allows people to bring up their own cases, so long as they come with evidence that the claim is false, and not just counter-accusations or unsupported denials.
You mean you are not controlling existing sub which is why you prefer to start a new one?
I feel like most slander is constructed in a way that makes it very hard to disprove. Which could mean this will just turn into pointless bickering.
However, I do hate the witch hunting that happens on here sometimes so I’ll check it out at least.
wow the redditing of lemmy is going hard today…
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
Oh no, there are idiots in the internet! Let’s engage and let them live rent-free in our heads!
FYI, I don’t think we are supposed to sympathize with xkcd.com/386
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
What? You mean I’ve been doing this internet thing wrong this whole time?
PugJesus@piefed.social 1 week ago
I mean, I thought the whole point of the comic was that it's an extremely common urge, just expressed in a stark way that highlights that we, as human beings, are silly animals with space-age technology.
At the same time, this comm isn't so much for people being wrong on the internet - you could say that most comms with any amount of controversy center around people quarreling over others being wrong on the internet. This is, specifically, for recording and disproving people slandering other users. "John believes in Flat Earth Theory" doesn't belong here unless John provably doesn't believe in Flat Earth Theory.
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
But we are animals who can recognize and control whatever urges we have. We don’t need to act on them. It might feel cathartic to be able to compile some huge list of BS made-up by a troll, but more likely than not the troll simply will not care. At best it’s your time and energy being wasted with someone that does not deserve it, at worst is just a place that will amplify the toxicity that is already too prevalent here.
Anyway, I was never a fan of drama communities and I really wish we toned down on the Fediverse “meta-discussion”. For an outsider, this type of community seems like an excellent source of material to justify why the Fediverse is not a friendly place.