He seems to fall back on the “death threats” claim regularly, as if it’s some kind of default. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any evidence presented to the effect that these purported “death threats” were ever real, or common, or an actual issue beyond the usual background level of Internet ribald. It seems like it should be a pretty trivial thing to prove.

Come on, man. Post some screen shots. Name some names. Instead it’s all just allusions and stereotyping and fictionalizing and trying to paint entire instances or groups of people with a wide brush.

Isn’t it a big thing that private messages and the ilk are not actually secure here and are theoretically visible e.g. to instance admins and operators? If said threats were sent between two .world accounts (and at least two of his alt accounts that I know of were local lemmy.world accounts) it ought to be trivial to verify these, yes?

Actually, it’s been quite incredible to see just how level headed everyone’s response to this entire debacle has been, at least insofar as I’ve encountered. Overall people seem to either be bewildered or amused by their presence on his list, surprised by it’s discovery or baffled as to its purported necessity, or highly skeptical of its alleged purpose. But all of the tirades, rants, insults, and crash-outs I’ve seen have been only coming from AdmiralPatrick himself — not anybody else.