this post was submitted on 15 Jan 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:
- 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.
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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PTB, although I can’t say I’m surprised with the comm name. It’s annoying that so many leftist spaces just end up being campist authcom echo chambers
It's .ml, there's nothing actually leftist there
You are not helping.
Sorry, what am I supposed to be helping with?
If you want to defeat secterism you need to open a dialogue. If you start telling yourself and others you or your faction are the real leftists. You too are a campist.
I know we all wear our feelings on the outside ATM, but the makes it even more important to try talking.
Kind of hard to have a dialog on your instance because of shit like what this post is highlighting.
Dialogue also tends to get you banned from .ml if the admins don't like it, even if mods like Geneva don't ban you first.
The admins straight up ban you from communities you’ve never posted in if they don’t like your brand of leftism. They only want to hear the opinions of those who confirm their views.
A db0 member was banned from Hexbear for no reason.
The mod log didn't say anything and the mod from Hexbear who showed up on their .ml alt said it was for something but also didn't give links, and changed the reason why to "you always deserved it".
Literally live Big Brother levels of editing the narrative.
Well I left .world because they defederated from the socialist instances. That was too much blanket censorship for me.
True, however this isn't that instance. And ideally shouldn't be like it regardless of how successful over all it is in reality. 🫤
There are plenty there I have no good will for. And it's pretty mutual so I'm okay with that. But there are a number of prominent ones on .world ...and even here. I may be reflexively wary of posters from the .ml because of the way the instances being run selects for a type. But users aren't their instance. It's something I've gotta keep my head on straight with too. Let the individuals speak for themselves. Then form an opinion. Otherwise we end up like those we don't like. And that does no one any good.
Oh yeah, I agree with all that. I assume good faith and tag people when they say crazy shit so I remember them for the future.
Thank you
Then maybe you need to start by telling your instance admins to stop banning anybody they disagree with...
Opens dialogue
Immediately banned
"You need to open a dialogue"
... ah, yes, mhm, yep.
This is ... you're doing parody, right?
... right, this a bit, right?
When they ban anytime you do help they disagree with, they ban you.
You question it, they ban you.
How are you meant to do that when they ban you consistently for this? Clearly they don't want it.
.ml mods and admins tend to ban people before any dialogue can happen