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.
I don't believe this is an honest assessment of me at all.
For starters, I don't think it's necessary for me to hand-craft a unique response to common, low-effort arguments against socialism or socialist states. If I have addressed an argument before, I find where I've responded to it before and frequently copy and paste, as I believe quality responses are more effective than unique ones.
Secondly, on the topic of "propaganda." In that what I am trying to do is create more communists and communist sympathizers, I definitely fall into the category of propagandist. I focus on direct conversations with individuals, rather than many individuals at a more shallow and easy to grasp level. This doesn't mean what I say isn't factual or based in solid logical reasoning, however.
Third, the idea that I defend "states violently suppressing civilians because you try to claim they were secretly all CIA Nazis or defending Russia invading Ukraine because NATO exists so it’s fair that civilians die." This is, frankly, horseshit. I'd like to see examples, because I definitely have shown evidence from a myriad of sources for genuine lynchings of Jews and communists by Nazis that the Red Army stopped, and I've never tried to say the deaths of civilians is justified because NATO exists. I've explained the origins of the Russo-Ukrainain war as it traces back to the 2014 Banderite coup, and the ethnic repressions in the Donbass region kickstarting a civil war, but I've never justified the deaths of civilians, much the opposite.
If I'm "personally probably one of the worst things about .ml," then I shudder to imagine what you believe to be good.
I'm asking you both now to drop this. Stop shit talking blahaj and engaging in slap-fights. This is not in-scope in this comm.
I'm fine to not engage in slap fights, and I'm not trying to shit-talk blahaj. If the other user indeed drops it, or is given a timeout if they continue, then I will stop. For clarity, I detest the transphobes that shit on Blahaj for respecting neopronouns and have no problems with them on that basis. I know the anti-Blahaj crowd is usually like that and I want no association with them, and I don't even consider myself anti-blahaj, I only mentioned them with respect to the possibility that Rimu is trying to propagate these blocklists with other instance admins.
well, the actions of someone else don't have anything to do with your personal responsibility, and I think you know that. this comm isn't for rehashing drama, especially drama that is only tangentially related to the OP. besides, if you want to stop an argument at any time, you can still make use of the Disengage rule and it ends there, no questions asked.
I can't speak for why you got banned, and I can't speak for the blahaj admins themselves, but I can say from the admin/mod chat we share with blahaj that they don't appear to have a very high regard for Rimu. that's just my personal perspective judged from the things that have been said, so take it with however many grains of salt that you wish.
I understand that this isn't the space to rehash drama, I thought it was relevant that Rimu is clearly sharing this list of mass banned users. I was not intending on starting anything, but I also wasn't going to just let someone slander me undefended. That's why I'm happy db0 stepped in and put a stop to it, and think that's the best course.