Dubvee was mass banning users for harmless comments on comms on other instances that had nothing to do with their instance. It all seemed very strange to me, what the point of all that was.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

They're certainly not the only instance that engages in such classy activities

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Essentially, if you were a user on his instance he assumed you were there because you wanted his curated version of the fediverse. So his instance ban list got treated like his own personal block list.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If that is stated somewhere openly before signing up, I honestly see nothing wrong with it. I wouldn't sign up there, but if there are any tangible rules associated with what is banned and what is not, and you can check those, fine.

If its erratic banning and random rules not written down, then eh, bad stuff.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It definitely was stated yes. I don't want to try to search for it now that dubvee.org is down, but fwiw I definitely recall seeing multiple posts by him stating exactly that, how he wanted to replicate "Beehaw" behavior.

Edit: e.g. a link I shared with someone earlier, not that it works anymore but if it helps: https://dubvee.org/post/dubvee.org/1516426 .

[–] Kirk@startrek.website -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like a major perk of that instance to me.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mass banning people for harmless comments that have nothing to do with your instance is a major perk for sure. 👍🏻

[–] Kirk@startrek.website -3 points 1 day ago

I'm glad we agree.