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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.

Some acronyms you might see.

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!fediverse@piefed.social mod throws insults then blocks replies. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Rimu published yet another hit piece against the /0 instance and this time posted it in his own instance comms as well. One of his mods jumped in, admitted they don't know anything about anything, but nevertheless felt confident enough to state their opinion as fact and in the process insult all of us collectively, then stickied his opinion for good measure.

So I decided to reply sarcastically, at which point that mod insulted me and locked the thread, which is apparently a feature in piefed which simply hides/deletes further replies in that thread, but since it's not a feature in lemmy, it appears to function like a shadow delete.

This is what my last reply would have been.

(Yes I'm being snarky, but that "I'm so mature" bullshit just rubs me the wrong way.)

In my opinion, using mod powers to get the last insult in, is just bastard behaviour.

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's unhinged that he uses Samskara out of all people in his example. Just shows how well the tool is working, Samskara is one of the most blatant Zionists on Lemmy.

[–] Aspis@lemy.lol 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hi. Admin of Lemy.lol here.

This does not surprise me. When I joined the Lemy.lol team, I was informed that Rimu had pre-emptively defederated from us sometime ago due to our logo. Pepe the frog. His claim was that it was a symbol of alt-right hatred. There is a debate/discussion to be had around that, especially due to the fact the original creator vehemently stands against the bastardization of his creation, but Rimu refused to engage. His mind had been made up. This situation appears to be no different. He is searching for 'proof' to validate his claim of abuse by the administration team of Dbzer0. I suspect this extends from his similarly rabid reaction over the Lemmy.World admin abuse of Anarchist.nexus and its users.

Learning all of this, as well as his added tools to silence people critical of him, I find it both obscenely hypocritical and obscenely suspicious of his behavior here. This accusation appears to be some level of projection, more so than an actual rational conclusion. As we have all learned recently, people who frequently scream one specific conclusion are often guilty of helping come to this conclusion themselves.

Rimu has already been proven to be using a piefed feature to silence dissenting voices.

What else is he doing with Piefed?

Not merely a PTB, but a dangerous one. The developer of Piefed taking these stances deeply shakes all credibility of Piefed as a platform for myself. It appears to be a rebuilding of reddit from the ground up with Spez as its head. It is for this reason that I have fully recommended for Lemy.lol to not have a Piefed instance. Or, at the very least, not a basic piefed instance. We will gladly wait for a fork that has been sanitized.

[–] Salamence@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I say he is building a worst reddit since he programmed social credit score into it

https://mander.xyz/post/46371251/24881755

Every user (remote or local) has an "attitude" which is calculated as follows: (upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes). If your "attitude" is < 0.0 you can't downvote.

Every account has a Social Credit Score, aka your Reputation. If your account has less than 100 reputation and is newly created, you are not considered "trustworthy" and there are limitations placed on what your account can do. Your reputation is calculated as upvotes earned - downvotes earned aka Reddit Karma. If your reputation is at -10 you also cannot downvote, and you can't create new DMs. It also flags your account automatically if your reputation is to low:

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

It also violates basic compatibility with the fediverse. https://communick.news/comment/8015757

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't forget it tracks comment quality as well. So not only it you post memes but gifs or reddits favorite phrase this

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What does the code look for when deciding if something is low quality? And how do they decide if someone is posting memes specifically? It just feels like it could easily lead to false positives if he did it poorly (or even if he didn't)

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That "shadow lock" thing sounds like a terrible feature. I'm so annoyed too because I posted a real tear of a rant at that one dude suggesting everyone read Proudhon. Buddy, I have got opinions on that kind of thing.

Real talk here though, wtf is going on? Every day there's some new assault on our instance and every time the thread is dogpiled with crypto-fascists and Zionists.

I've been on the net a very long time. I know what a Nazi infiltration looks like. It looks like the temperature on the board suddenly spiking, with huge arguments constantly breaking out that, somehow, magically, always start to turn towards topics that were "just asking questions" in ways to start etching and eroding the community standards. It starts by claiming everyone doing good moderation is a Zionist or a nazi, so they get kicked out and replaced by actual fascists.

I'm not worried about dbzer0 falling. I'm afraid that piefed already has. It did appear rather quickly, offering a slew of features to get folks off Lemmy. Would it be so strange if a state actor was promoting (and developing) it in order to gradually EEE their way into control here?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well the good news is that your reply is still visible from our instance, so at least I get to enjoy it

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, definitely sounds spooky when you call it a "shadow lock" weilded by a conspiratorial cabal of zionazi-crypto-fascists.

I can only imagine it's exhausting to view everything through such an extremist lens.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're the only one stating that position dickwad.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you read the comment I replied to, dipshit?

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes I actually did, and you conflated two completely separate claims into one. What the user you were replying to said was:

That “shadow lock” thing sounds like a terrible feature. [...]

And later...

Real talk here though, wtf is going on? Every day there’s some new assault on our instance and every time the thread is dogpiled with crypto-fascists and Zionists.

And you came back with:

Yeah, definitely sounds spooky when you call it a “shadow lock” weilded by a conspiratorial cabal of zionazi-crypto-fascists.

Which is completely misrepresenting what the user was actually saying.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't pretend they weren't implying Rimu is one of those Zionist and crypto-fascists.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what your comment implied. Not his.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol -1 points 2 weeks ago

Keep telling yourself that, I guess.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I didnt suggest a "cabal", please don't put Nazi language in my mouth.

I was also called spooky, kook, paranoid, and other X-Files derived insults way back before Ed Snowden proved the US government (and others) actually were spying on everyone and actually had infiltrated or partnered with every major tech company and several standards committees to ensure that emerging communication tech would be susceptible to centralization, subversion, and espionage.

I'll consider it a badge of honor to be called an extremist when the alternative is naively wandering into a propaganda mill.

There have been multiple attempts recently to discredit our admins and justify unilateral defederation. That's weird. When we've talked about defederating in the past, a governance thread is opened, the case is presented, and we vote on it.

https://vger.to/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67198913

~~This isn't always true, we recently defederated from feddit.org through pure admin fiat, but an announcement thread was opened to explain why, and I never had the impression that the decision couldn't be questioned or debated if someone felt strongly about it.~~

Edit: my mistake, please see db0's correction.

And I'm not saying every instance must follow our rules or procedures, but db0 and the admins continue to impress me with how they run this ship and put into stark contrast how dictatorial and secretive the governance of most instances\forums is. I'm happy to not carry that responsibility, so I can act like a provocative extremist and try to shake people into thinking more critically.

I'm also not necessarily trying to claim that Piefed and it's instances are ops, I'm asking how would it look different if they were? Being guileless is not a protection against exploitation, quite the opposite in fact.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Here's the feddit.org voting thread https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63525728

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would it be so strange if a state actor was promoting (and developing) it in order to gradually EEE their way into control here?

A cabal is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Etymology

The term cabal is derived from Kabbalah (a word that has numerous spelling variations), the Jewish mystical interpretation of the Hebrew scripture (קַבָּלָה). In Hebrew, it means "received doctrine" or "tradition", while in European culture (Christian Cabala, Hermetic Qabalah) it became associated with occult doctrine or a secret.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay...

Anyways, my point is that you did indeed imply that Rimu might be part of "a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group."

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

My claim was that piefed development and instantiation could be influenced by state actors. If it wasn't clear from my other response, I believe such a thing is possible because the state (specifically the United States of America via it's clandestine spy agencies) has been documented as having done so before. Other countries, like China, Russia, and Isreal (and the USA) have all also been credibly accused of shaping public discourse with paid actors, bots, and various other accusations that get tossed around regularly. Creating chaos, destroying the ability to perceive any piece of information as being true or real, these are the goals of numerous agencies and actors.

Rimu can just be an ideological patsy, they don't have to be "in on it" if their behavior aligns with authoritarian goals naturally. That's the basis of modern decentralized fascism: stochastic terror, disinformation, layers of control mediated by regulation and economics to isolate the decision makers from the soldiers.

I don't need to imagine a "cabal" when an open conspiracy of pedophile billionaires demonstrably rules the planet. The subtle shifting you made in my argument from those implied authoritarians to the language of "cabal" seeks to associate my argument with a fascist dog whistle for the secret Jewish conspiracy to rule the world. It's the same as if you'd claimed I was implying that Rimu is a "globalist." Those words mean more than just their definitions taken from the first paragraph of Wikipedia.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not worried about dbzer0 falling. I'm afraid that piefed already has.

Piefed was created out of anti-communist ideology. It isn't very surprising to me how compatible that page is with crypto-fascism and zionism.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Piefed was created out of anti-communist ideology.

It wasn't.

It isn’t very surprising to me how compatible that page is with crypto-fascism and zionism.

"Anyone who doesn't like communism is highly compatible with crypto-fascism and zionism"

I wish I could view the world with a mindset this simple. Everything would be so much easier.

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

a stated goal of the lead developer was preventing 'tankies' from wanting to use the software by baking stuff in.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 weeks ago

Null is still insisting that's not the case, Null can't read I guess.

[–] XLE@piefed.social -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So this is how I found out dbzero used an AI chatbot at least once to come up with reasons for why a person is banned. It forces people to debate the perceived "objectivity" of a chatbot, which apparently their admins trust even to use as evidence.

It would be ironic if Israel used the same technology to determine guilt for meting out judgment... Oh wait

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Comparing a ban on a social media site to what’s going on in Palestine is certainly a choice…

The tool directly links to things the banned user has stated. As long as the DB0 mods are reviewing the output for validity (I see no evidence they are not) I don’t see a problem.

[–] XLE@piefed.social -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The AI generated text includes quotes that do not exist. I don't see any evidence the moderators are aware of this fact. If they knew but haven't made it clear, that is a moderator deficiency. If they didn't knew, that is a far worse deficiency.

I believe the right call was made here, but the wrong tools were used to make it. A coin toss might have also yielded the correct result. My concern is that future moderation decisions could be both sloppy and incorrect because AI cannot parse meaning.

(AI is used to decide to kill who to kill in Palestine. I hope this is not an offensive fact, nor that you are implying it should be unspoken until some future time you deem appropriate.)

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Every single linked comment works for me - can you provide an example?

Every comment I checked (there are links) works, and every comment I check exists. And matches whats in the summary.

Which quote does not exist? You keep saying they don't, but not saying which.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Emphasis is important here: The AI generated text includes quotes that do not exist.

If you see links, you are no longer in the AI-generated text, but rather in an apparently non-curated comment dump.

For example, surely this is not evidence that the ban is justified... I hope:

Date: 2026-04-17T13:51:01.747786Z
Comment ID: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/24890311
Post ID: 591643
Community ID: 351

When the Molly hits just right.

You can argue that the quotes are close enough, but that's not what quotes are for. And I believe the ban is justified, but it's very concerning to see how they reach that justification.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 0 points 2 weeks ago

The AI generated text includes quotes that do not exist.

The summary paraphrased? Wow. Whodathunkit.

If you see links, you are no longer in the AI-generated text,

Summary.

but rather in an apparently non-curated comment dump.

The reference text used for evaluation.

For example, surely this is not evidence that the ban is justified... I hope:

Its a direct quote. I don't follow. What is the misquote?

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And it includes quotes that do exist and links to them.

Which is why the human who looks at those results can are what’s real and what isn’t and ban someone.

Bot summary

- Statements that “they’re killing children” is mere outrage propaganda

Bot found post:

Is a common propaganda technique to induce outrage. Even if it was a 17 year old terrorist.

Young adults are not children.

Bot linked post

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/24309248

Actual Post

Is a common propaganda technique to induce outrage. Even if it was a 17 year old terrorist.

Young adults are not children.

The AI identified this disgusting comments and linked to the original source. You are deliberately cherry picking nothingburgers to try and pretend it’s useless.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I’m not seeing any fabricated quotes, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are. So long as this is just used as a summary tool and at least some of the posts are vetted I still don’t see a problem.

I am aware how Israel uses ML in their military, I’m just saying I think it’s hyperbole comparing banning someone from a website (negligible harm) with someone getting murdered by a state actor. I also don’t find it ironic that DB0 is using them, ML/AI are just tools. If Israel builds bombs with an arc welder does any use of welding machines make someone a hypocrite for criticizing Israel making bombs? Forgive the crude analogy, it’s the best I can come up with while I’m half paying attention to a meeting.

[–] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lets all be honest, PieFed was created solely in opposition to the political beliefs of Lemmy developers. Anyone closely related to those 'people,' is going to have some pretty far-right beliefs and behaviors. They just made a hugbox capable of doing what they need to to ensure complete ideological isolation.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today -1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, that explains all the women hate porn.