I've been here since the post r/CTH ban discord lifeboat days, and I'm still amazed at how dense the history of this community is. There's so much apocrypha that will be lost to time if we don't perpetuate it by putting to writing what each of us remembers personally.
Up until recently, there was this whole-ass over a year long period wherein posts and comments disappeared from search and user histories if they were more than a couple months old. The extensively forked lemmy code Hexbear used just couldn't handle such a large database, we had to return to the main lemmy branch to regain that stuff. I feel this saga disconnected us from our history on this site. Many of the funniest struggle sessions and incidents have all but disappeared from the site's cultural memory as a result.
The Peter Singer spammer, where someone got so mad at being banned that for at least a day they made HUNDREDS of accounts to spam the opening paragraph of Peter Singer’s Wikipedia article, making a new one seconds after they got banned. It’s only recently occurred to me that, since account creation was and is rate-limited by IP, they had to manually toggle their VPN every single time they got banned, only to get clapped again mere seconds after
Even if it was automated, that means they had to write a script that could do that, which is equally funny to me
I’m not even exaggerating, btw. They made upwards of 300 accounts in the span of a single day.
maybe had several devices going