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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.


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  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
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  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
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Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
Rimu

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

Kicking from all Matrix PieFed rooms

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

Rimu has been manufacturing non-stop drama for weeks. He ignores multiple offers from multiple parties to de-escalate, and now he bans someone for trying to promote non-discriminatory language. He has also now cut off a PieFed admin from any and all support and ability to contribute to the software.

Oh and the real kicker ? Rimu did all this after his big grand post about how he is stepping back from drama and hiding away from users.

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[–] SatansDaughter@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why is every maintainer of the threadiverse unhinged, like I switched to piefed partially because I disagreed with the politics of the Lemmy devs, and recently the piefed dev does weird stuff. Does making foss software really have that big of an effect on someone's mental health?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Because us developers, we are just a couple of nerds on the Internet. We didn't study public relations or politics at university, and don't know which spontaneous comment might generate a shitstorm. Unlike /u/spez we don't have a PR team writing posts for us. And because there is no profit motive, Lemmy and Piefed don't need to appeal to everyone like Reddit does. Consider it the price to pay for using a non-commercial platform.

[–] Krusty@quokk.au 1 points 3 days ago

It becomes tantalizing when you have your software running on others systems to see what you can get away with.

FOSS is notorious for egomaniacs. That's why there's so many forks and endless implementations of basically the same shit! Just with some new unpronounceable name that'll often be abandoned in short order.

[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's because FOSS attracts libertarians and anarcho-NATOists (not exclusively). FOSS social media attracts liberals. Multiply all that by Reddit, well, you create my favorite bloodbowl ever. No offense you all probably mean well, on some level, but it's just people following different forms of idealism suddenly losing their shackles to one part of Silicon Valley. Interested to see where it all... ends up? Maybe it won't end up, it's not impossible.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Jessie what the fuck are you talking about

[–] maam@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

I can’t believe Rimu is antagonising friendly Quokka. What happened to him in the last few weeks?

When a lot of people criticised him and left the Piefed general group chat he responds so poorly.

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] remon@ani.social 1 points 3 days ago

Only if you're stupid.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

before too long there will be very few words left that aren't labeled as scary and harmful.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And we'll have no word to properly describe the beliefs of the fascists who are murdering us

[–] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah I looked up the definition of stupid just to be certain. its just an insult and not an ableist slur.

[–] Krusty@quokk.au -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's still dehumanizing.

Like calling non-humans stupid beasts or dumb animals. That's what it seems like they're doing here. Stupid is just shorthand for "(lessor) humans with (worthless) opinions that I don't like."

[–] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i disagree with your interpretation. stupid is an insult. a mild one. and nobody is going to take the request to stop using it seriously. as its quite a silly notion.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Now you’re attacking silly people. Why the hostility?

[–] maam@feddit.uk -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You only feel that way because bigots constructed language for way too long.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes John H. English was actually a bigot. and his friends who created the english language from scratch in a big room also were bigots!

an outrage!

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net -1 points 2 days ago

Oh look the enlightened centrist who runs cover for dog whistling chuds thinks language is becoming "too PC."

Have you tried not being as obnoxious as possible?

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 points 3 days ago

the more I see of Rimu's behavior, the less inclined I am to believe he's an adult.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Aside from the silly drama i dont care about, stupid is a bad word now? What the fuck.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 3 days ago

it makes little sense to me as well. it seems like every few months or so, random innocent words get added to "no-no" lists.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it's been a bad word for a long time, mostly for children. many parents try to prohibit it because it really does come out as hateful more often than not

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 1 points 3 days ago

While that's true, I doubt most Lemmy users are of the age that saying the word "stupid" gets you put on time-out.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is particularly hilarious God Complex behavior coming from the person that just recently tried to argue for essentially a Fediverse UN... 100% missing the entire point of federation, that there is no one single central authority.

Like this is lolcow behavior, just very plainly.

[–] erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

PTB

"look at me im an ally!" like no bro, you dont get to decide that yourself. because you didnt get a pat on the back for this, or an apology for your perceived wrongdoings you ban them, immediately after they try to peacefully deescalate the situation. crazy behavior.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This drama is even more stupid than the last one.

Congratulations to everyone on being truly obnoxious stereotypes of leftists in the "complete disintegration of the community" type infighting.

[–] FranklyIGiveADarn@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

The only person I see making drama here is Rimu and he ain't a leftist

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

the PTB continues

mia:

asks to remove insult to peoples intelligence from the function name for the hardcoded 'low effort' post filter

rimu:

'i'll have you know i am not transphobic, see i made a pronoun tag'

mia:

attempts to de-escalate and explain that this was not a personal criticism

kicked

Oh and the real kicker ? Rimu did all this after his big grand post about how he is stepping back from drama and hiding away from users.

when i read that post the subtext was always 'i'm isolating myself from anyone critical, only interacting through alts and toadies going forward'

like say what you will about the lemmy devs they've received way more criticism, targeted harassment and smears over the years without needing to turn it into a big vendetta like this has been. for example i've said that i think nutomic should step back in the past because of his actions! while i wish he handled that situation better and

while i wish his apology for it was better,

at least since then he has left us alone and has largely stepped back from moderating things, rather than attempting to actively silence all dissent

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Being a developer is difficult, because a lot of people pay attention to what you say. And any mistake can get a lot of visibility. Sometimes I wish that Lemmy was a company, with a community manager who takes care of these things. But anyway, it is how it is.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

in your case as well it doesn't help that there's a subset of ideologically motivated people just waiting to jump on any comment to run a smear campaign on it.

for me actions speak louder than words and despite my initial disappointment following the dm leak, years have passed and i haven't seen that turn into a pattern of behavior.

i will say i kind of prefer that lemmy isn't a company, in part because frankly i trust a handful of communists to not just hand over user info and ip addresses to the alphabet boys more than i would any sort of company

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As for insults, be creative with your words and do so without being ableist.

So we should not say someone is stupid, rather, that they could not find their ass with both hands, could not fight their way out of a wet paper bag, could fall into a bucket of titties and come out sucking their thumb?

I'm not sure that that's better.