this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


Posting Guidelines

All posts should follow this basic structure:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Rules


Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.

Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.

YPTB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


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Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

@rimu@piefed.social

What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Mass instance bans

Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

Done

Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).

Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

He has abused the modlog to claim 'harassment', which I have never engaged in. I have not even interacted with Rimu in any way for days prior to getting kicked from the PieFed developer Matrix channels.

He has decided to mass ban 20 users because they have spoken out against his erratic and hostile behaviour as of late.

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[–] alapakala@quokk.au 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

this can be read as a threat lol.
Powerful image though.

[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Since this is the fediverse, and we are up against some crazy shit, as far as this picture goes, I say "Hail Hydra."

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, but do we want to be read as harassers?
I follow the disengagement rule as soon as I am requested to. Doesn't “ML” instances do raids/agit spams?

If Rimu was banning people over personally targeting him that would be a valid concern. He isn't. Making new accounts to spread counter-programming to his userbase is not harassing him. It's only harassment if one makes accounts specifically to contact him.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

iirc hexbear has had a 'disengage' rule since before even dbzer0

Doesn’t “ML” instances do raids/agit spams?

not as far as i'm aware; i moderate on !slop@hexbear.net, which is for all reactionary content and even has a rule against going after federated instance mods/admins. lemmy content is a small fraction of the content posted there and when it is posted, half the time there's going to be someone complaining in the comment section about how they don't care about other instances at all classic

obviously cross-posting something will get people who want to comment engaged, but people cross-post things on the fediverse all the time, it's kind of the point of a platform like this

also the meme image i posted was just a joke, people are always throwing around accusations about other posters being alts and yeah they're all alts, my alts! ahaha

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
  1. Thank you for answering.
  2. I am aware you were joking. But be aware how it reads to folks traumatized by harassment. Within the context of this thread, I immediately comprehended it was ragebait. But others not as literate and nuanced, may read this as “I‘ll make as many alts as I want until Rimu relents to our demands!”
  3. Wild to read someone read/experienced うみねこのなく頃に.
[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wild to read someone read/experienced うみねこのなく頃に.

beatrice is iconic, i definitely relate to her a bit doggirl-sweat

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I only know her, because my wife asks me to play 黄金夢想曲†CROSS, much to my 😵‍💫

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've never played that one! i really should though lmao

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wife’s big into kkg. She’s been hyperfixating on Invincible VS, ’cause repacked.
She even promised she’ll quit her job when Ingrid comes out. 😥

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

hell yeah, that's commitment catgirl-smug

i am definitely more of a strategy game enjoyer these days, that and retro things like modded GBA pokemon sanae-boomer