After almost a year, with an unsurmountable amount of open-source evidence and the thief having had every single paper he has ever written retracted for fraud!! the best the journal did is to add a notice: https://www.mdpi.com/2674-113X/2/3/20
Arxiv cared even less. They allowed the thief to DMCA strike me multiple times. He even managed to take down the real version of the paper by claiming that it was his: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04214
> Did you end up publishing your work eventually
No. When I tried to do so, I was actually rejected from a conference because their plagiarism detecting system labelled that I was trying to publish something that already been published (what was stolen).
Arxiv cared even less. They allowed the thief to DMCA strike me multiple times. He even managed to take down the real version of the paper by claiming that it was his: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04214
> Did you end up publishing your work eventually
No. When I tried to do so, I was actually rejected from a conference because their plagiarism detecting system labelled that I was trying to publish something that already been published (what was stolen).
It was very traumatic.