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David Gerard

Note to hachyderm.io users, who can't see this on their server (which I'm mentioning because another one just asked me about it):

the hachyderm admins blocked me personally - if you try to follow me from hachyderm, it lies and tells you this account is "suspended" - and i still have no idea why

coincidentally Nivenly, the company running hachyderm, got into an AI grift and I loudly called it an AI grift. This suggests the reasons are simple and commercial.

they have apparently denied that their AI grift was the reason but haven't said what the reason was

and they haven't contacted me at all and certainly nobody is paying me enough to bother to contact these weirdos

it's a mastodon feature: forum admins with poster's madness

so basically find a non-shitty server or spin up an akkoma yourself

feel free to copy and forward this as appropriate

edit: there was apparently a bug raised, and i'm definitely not wasting my time attempting communication with these circumlocutious scammy sounding weirdos. Perhaps you will wish to. github.com/hachyderm/community

edit 2: it's their feudal pissheap and they're allowed not to like me! that they lie that my account is "suspended" and go into sub-GPT blathering when asked why is, I submit, a good reason to reevaluate hitching your wagon to their hungover seaside donkey

What would you like to discuss with us or let us know? I have been following David Gerard's written work regarding cryptocurrency and AI hype in addition to other rot-economu issues for some time. ...
GitHub@davidgerard@circumstances.run shows "account suspended" from hachyderm.io · Issue #579 · hachyderm/communityBy huronbikes
Buck ( Richard )
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@davidgerard The Admins are into an AI grift? 😧

David Gerard
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@buck Nivenly

Joe
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@davidgerard Details, please. What's the grift, and does it affect the users of the instance or other instances?

David Gerard
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@not2b Nivenly, who run hachyderm

Joe
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@davidgerard I thought they had a vote and didn't accept the AI Horde. Is there something else still going on?

Joe
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@chx @davidgerard Yes, I saw that. But as far as I can tell, they are out of the generative AI racket now, so I don't see why they should be boycotted for a past mistake.

David Gerard
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@not2b @chx is this some sort of DARVO on the Fediverse

like, you do what the fuck you like, this post is an explanatory message to my friends why they can't see my posts. you're some random guy kramering into my mentions.

chx
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@davidgerard @not2b not sure who are you angry at , as for myself, I moved from hachyderm to my own instance because of this case...

David Gerard
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@chx other guy, sorry!

Tim Nicholas
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@davidgerard Are you able to provide any supporting evidence?

David Gerard
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@tim you're a random driveby, I'm not paid enough to care about you either

Old Man in the Shoe
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@davidgerard @tim you can’t just make such a bold claim on faith alone and a lack of details

Stephen J. Anderson
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@jenzi @davidgerard @tim Which is ironic, considering how little information the hachyderm mod team are prepared to share on this matter.

“He violated our Community Standards.”

“Which one?”

“Not telling.”

I run a programming-focussed alt account on hachyderm, and contribute to the upkeep of the instance. I thought hachyderm were largely sane and stable. I *really* don’t want to have to move instances *again*…

Old Man in the Shoe
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@utterfiction @davidgerard @tim No one is asking about that. There is a claim they are running a grift but without saying what it is. I gave up caring about it.

Willow
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@davidgerard jfc the responses from the admin in that gh issue...
That's a whole lot of words for a whole lot of nothing.

David Gerard
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@willow it's possible i told one to fuck off at some point and this is the retaliation. given their sub-GPT blathering, they undoubtedly deserved it

Willow
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@davidgerard Ahaha, telling someone to fuck off is often completely justified and not a reason for an admin to prevent an entire server of people from being able to see what you write.

David Gerard
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@willow again i don't *know* this is the reason, but this post does tell them to fuck off again

Toby Wint_rmute
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@davidgerard thanks for the link to the github issue. That was a weird read! So many words, yet no answers

@pndc
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@davidgerard The response from "hachyderm-admin" seems to be venturing on actionable. In particular "someone" (i.e. you) "violated one or more Community Rules in such a way that we determined that we needed to intervene", and the list of Community Rules on their site are "don't be a dick" (which is suspect is the reason), and separately a laundry-list of things that you should not accuse people of lightly without keeping receipts. Even in "don't be a dick", it's probably best to keep receipts.

That they are unwilling to provide receipts is telling.

David Gerard
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@pndc i mean it's their feudal pissheap and they're allowed not to like me!

however, I have these friends who are on Hachyderm and can't figure out why they can't follow me, because Hachyderm lies to them and says the account is "suspended"

hence this post

Martin Kelly
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@davidgerard I left hachyderm for a more grown up instance a while ago for an earlier round of fuckery the details of which i forget so none of this is remotely surprising to me, but I’m here because this thread is a rich source of idiot man babies to block so cheers David!

Ignacio Torres
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@davidgerard Another instance of their poor moderation and outreach and their inability to live up to their covenant.

amy
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run the suspension thing is an annoying implementation detail of remote users as i understand it, definitely not good ux

not the first time i've seen hachyderm moderation be poor on judgement and poor on followup / communication, worrying stuff for an instance that touts itself as a "safe and inclusive space"...