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For those who aren’t in the know about Kiwifarms, this Wikipedia article explains it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms Kiwifarms is blocked here in the UK, so I had to use TOR to access it to get these screenshots.
Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums (/ˈkwɪki/ KWIH-kee), is a web forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxing and real-life harassment.[3][4][5] Kiwi Farms has been tied to the suicides of three people who were victims of harassment by the website.[6][7][8]
The site targets transgender people,[4][15] people with disabilities,[16][17] and those its users believe to be neurodivergent.[16][17][15] Targets of harassment are referred to on the forum as “lolcows”
As some may already be aware, months ago, there was a callout post on lemmy.world about a user named Call Me Leni who was making dozens of comments doubling down on defending Elon Musk’s Nazi salute. Leni made dozens of comments in the callout thread where Leni further doubled down on defending Elon Musk’s Nazi salutes and the AfD:
It has recently been found out that this user is a member of Kiwifarms, and this is one of Leni’s posts there. How do we know this is Leni? Because Leni directly referenced these Kiwifarms posts in Lemmy comments. (The link to Kiwifarms is in the word “question” for the first one, and in the word “overrated” in the second comment). Leni is known for taking the usernames of people on DeviantArt and signing up using those usernames on other websites. Particularly the usernames of DeviantArt users who called Leni out.The username that posted these messages is that of a DeviantArt artist who, at one point, called Leni out. Leni has accounts all over the internet. The Kiwifarms user here also shares Leni’s distinctive writing style, art (the avatar) and opinions. Several things stated by the Kiwifarms account are consistent with details that Leni has posted on the Lemmy account.
More Kiwifarms posts from Leni
Kiwifarms posts from Leni about Luigi Mangione
Leni gatekeeping asexuality
More Kiwifarms posts about Luigi Mangione from Leni
Leni’s Kiwifarms post history
“What’s the closest you’ll ever get to saying you encountered the console equivalent of a lolcow?”
Leni considers Joe Biden to be a “likeable lolcow”
Leni’s still around. I see Leni is banned from your instance, dbzer0, so you can’t see Leni’s posts as posts from banned users don’t federate to remote instances they are banned from. Kiwifarms is an infamous site that was made for harassing, doxing and stalking of online figures, particularly those who are LGBT, neurodivergent, or disabled. The site has been linked to three suicides and the owner of the site, Joshua Moon, is apathetic to this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
Kiwifarms is blocked here in the UK, which is why I had to use TOR browser to get the screenshots. When I try and access it normally, I get this:
Apparently when you sign up, there’s a disclaimer that contains slurs, so users sign up knowing full well what the aim of the site is and have to click a box agreeing with the disclaimer before they can join the site.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
Rules
Any drama must be posted as an observer, you cannot post drama that you are involved with.
When posting screenshots of drama, you must obscure the identity of all the participants.
The poster must have a credible post and comment history before submitting a piece of history. This is to avoid sock-puppetry and witch hunts.
The usual instance-wide rules also apply.
Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)
Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.
Includes lore like how a instance got it’s name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc
(New) This sub’s intentions is to an archive/newspaper, as in preferably don’t get into fights with each other or the ppl featured in the drama
Why does this matter? Are they even still around?
Leni’s still around. I see Leni is banned from your instance, dbzer0, so you can’t see Leni’s posts as posts from banned users don’t federate to remote instances they are banned from. Kiwifarms is an infamous site that was made for harassing, doxing and stalking of online figures, particularly those who are LGBT, neurodivergent, or disabled. The site has been linked to three suicides and the owner of the site, Joshua Moon, is apathetic to this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
Kiwifarms is blocked here in the UK, which is why I had to use TOR browser to get the screenshots. When I try and access it normally, I get this:
Apparently when you sign up, there’s a disclaimer that contains slurs, so users sign up knowing full well what the aim of the site is and have to click a box agreeing with the disclaimer before they can join the site.
Other countries besides the UK have also blocked Kiwifarms: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350498096/infamous-kiwifarms-website-blocked-by-cyber-security-firm-over-escalating-threats the owner of the site, Joshua Moon, refused to remove the 2019 Christchurch terror attack footage that was posted there. When contacted by police, Moon "responded in an aggressive and mocking way, calling Aotearoa a “shithole country” with “f****t law”. "
Bruh, I know wtf kiwifarms is. I just don’t see why I should care about Leni anymore. Weren’t they removed from moderator positions anyway?