this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
9 points (80.0% liked)

Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

1763 readers
66 users here now

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.


Some acronyms you might see.


Relevant comms

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 21 minutes ago

when you're modding on piefed but you're a reddit mod at heart

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago

I thought piefed was bad news when I first read their document on tools for upholding healthy communities where they defended the idea of a karma system. Skavau very adamantly defends it claiming it's not a Karma system while describing everything wrong with Reddit's Karma system as if it's somehow a good thing. I'm not really glad that I'm right, this situation is awful. I am glad though that more people are seeing it for what it is, and hopefully will stop endorsing piefed so openly.

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

My piefed account wasn't loading. Now I wonder if I was blocked my I rarely have an opinion about anything to be banned at all

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 3 points 9 hours ago

Apparently urgent maintenance that needs at least a day to accommodate?

Wonder if they were hosting in the data center that caught fire a week or two ago and that requires downtime?

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/northc-data-center-outside-amsterdam-suffers-fire/

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago

No the server is unreachable atm

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Piefed as a software was always hipster pop. People gravitated towards it because it was new, it's not Lemmy and it tries to be everything. Some features are genuinely good and others aren't implemented in Lemmy for logical reasons. Anyway, point is, the people that create pop tend to be superficial and not want to rock any boats. It's unsurprising that he'd want to create a silo of confirmation bias. But I'm biased because I want my threadiverse experience to be full of people with differing opinions, stances and lifestyles.

That said, I also don't think brigading helps, even when they're baited. Inadvertently or not. Everyone's own mental health should remain the priority.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

i think someone made the argument that it was insanely less demanding on servers though

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm new around here and I must say you guys enjoy your drama.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, the difference between Lemmy and reddit is banning everyone doesn't really mean anything.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago
[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world -2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

All sides of the fediverse agree unanimously that Rimu is a piece of shit.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Not all, .world, lemmy.ca, feddit all agree that Rimu is actually the good guy and anyone who has proof is making it up. They even claim the harassment the queer people get is faked by the queers themselves, according to a few key Feddit users.

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Lemmy.world and also lemmy.ca might be on his side unfortunately (their administration). They seemed to be on the same page when it came to the last drama involving Lemmy.world threating to defederate from FAF (dbzer0, Anarchist.nexus, and Quokk.au).

load more comments
view more: next ›