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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:
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- 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.
Rules
- Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
- Don’t deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
- Don’t harass mods or brigade comms. Don’t word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
- You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
- If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.
- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
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.
Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
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I disagree, I think smaller communities are more sustainable and defederation should occur more, not less. I like discussing common interests and digging deeper into a topic both users have a shared basic understanding of. For example, allowing and even promoting people to come into a community like WomensStuff and argue against some pretty basic feminist ideas is really not what that community is made for. There are so many more examples of this, but without fail the end result is discouragement of minority opinions and people who are truly passionate about their chosen communities.
In this case, why bother with the Fediverse in the first place and why should we not go back to the forums of yesteryear?
I still like the idea of forums and still use a bunch of them, but different forums being somewhat compatible to each other has quite some advantages from my perspective. For me it would be great concept of having independent websites that can exchange data via ActivityPub and people can either visit the website or consume the content from another instance and with their app of choice.
There are many instances worth federating with.
Having safe spaces (which is absolutely fine and up to the mods of the community) doesn't mean that other people that contradict the idea of said safe spaces shouldn't use the Fediverse in general.
They could host their own Nazi instance of Lemmy and do whatever they want rather than using X or truth social or whatever. I obviously still don't like these people and their ideas, but I prefer them discussing it without being additionally manipulated by intransparent algorithms and corporations. Of course, other instances can (and probably will in many cases) decide to defederate the Nazi server or block specific users or communities as it's done today.
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I'm not arguing that at all; defederation does not affect somebody's ability to host an instance. Everything I said can be equally applied to all communities.
Could you please elaborate what you meant with your disagreement then? Seems to me that we agree here. I did not mean to say that everyone should be welcomed in every community and share whatever opinion/content they want. I was just talking about Platforms as in X, Truth Social or in case of the Fediverse Mastodon, Lemmy, Loops etc.
Because nothing I said was against the idea of decentralization, or promoting people staying on twitter. Defederating is a healthy part of decentralization, and it should be encouraged more as the fediverse grows.