this post was submitted on 16 May 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.
- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
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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I don't understand the piefed.Social people at all. Are they just making up reality as they go along?
Rimu is. The rest of them are either tacking onto his coattails because they believe they'll also gain some amount of control, believe (naively) that they can control him or are buying into his bullshit as the single irrefutable source.
I think they really believe the "orchestrated harrassment" bit and everything bad against them is done as part of a conspiracy to kill piefed because... tankies hate us for our freedoms or something
While also being the biggest harrasing users.
RIP Ogre.
WTF?!
Honestly, I'm shocked they haven't just jumped to defederation already, considering they're okay with just nonstop lying and mass bans from personal hit lists. May as well just bite this weird bullet.
I wonder if they know it'd trigger a mass exodus from piefed. While they have many solid communities, the vast majority of their users are there also for federation with communities on world and db0. Defederating them would probably cause uproar when even there I'm sure most of their users see it as a personal spat.
Its why rimu only blocked db0 instead of full on defederating, which even I told rimu directly defederate if he disliked db0s admin policies so much. The fact that he hasn't I think shows that they know it's not as bad as they keep trying to claim.
There are actual hate and horrifying instances that us admins insta-defederated from. They're trying to put regular admins on the same level, but not defederating proves that it's all in their heads.
Honestly, instances should just start defederating them at this point. There's a ton of harassment from them and they clearly don't act in good faith.
I honestly didn't think there would be worse mods than those on world but these last few weeks have certainly proven me wrong
Indeed, the whole project, and everyone associated with it, feels deeply malicious.
That’s rich coming from the person who publicly posted potential exploits and put thousands of users at risk.
Given that it took all of five minutes to find those exploits, those users were already at risk. I didn't reveal any information that anyone couldn't get by cloning the repo and throwing an LLM at it.