I don’t really know what the point of sharing that here was, because your comments in that thread do not help resolve this issue at all.

I’ll respond specifically to this comment:

Once again. This community under which you are replying is fucking satire most of the time, unless @[email protected] is feeling frisky. Are you deliberately being obtuse here? I beyond guarantee that any kind of attention outside of SDF was never wanted or warranted - it was accidental. Please take it to that thread on db0.

Your comments throughout that thread were very unclear as to whether you were talking about the SDF instance as a whole or [email protected] (a problem caused, in part, by Lemmy’s use of the general noun community for its proper noun Communities). Frankly, even now I’m still only like 70% sure you meant the latter. So I think it’s incredibly rude of you to accuse @[email protected] of being obtuse.

But anyway, even putting that aside, I fail to see how any of your points make things better. You keep harping on about how scribbled time stamps make it obviously satire. I saw that and presumed it was put in there to help the reader keep track of how much time was passing over this conversation. Frankly, if you wanted to point out that the post was obvious satire, concentrating on the body text would have been better evidence.

I waited so long to come forward and tell my story because I didn’t think anyone would believe me. But now I want people to know what happened to me, because if knowing what happened to me could prevent it happening to them, then I want them to know.

But all that is is evidence that they’re poking fun at something. Not necessarily that it’s at themselves as an admission of guilt. If they were in this thread or pinning a post in their Community explaining “hey, I fucked up”, and then following up with a meme post about their fuck-up, sure, it’d be clear. But as it is, it’s just as possible to read it as them laughing at their victims.

But I come back to the question of why did you link that thread here? Nobody in this thread was discussing that, and even if the dog pile in that Community was not warranted, the dog pile on their actions in the non-satire News community, and their terrible behaviour in the DMs with @[email protected], are still highly worthy of criticism. And will remain worthy of criticism until such a time as they publicly and explicitly admit culpability and promise to moderate in good faith via reasonable and clear criteria going forward, or they are removed by their instance admins and replaced by someone who will.

Or, if that news Community is supposed to be some weird experimental artsy space…there needs to be somewhere people can be pointed to in order to explain that. Not necessarily in the Community itself, but something somewhere, even if that’s just a bunch of people (not just the one person making dozens of comments that exist without corroboration) who are in on it being able to come in and explain it.