this post was submitted on 15 Aug 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.
Relevant comms
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First of all: there's no context here; hell, we don't even know if it was Rimu who removed those. There's 6 admins on that instance.
More importantly though:
That's his instance.
He's also the main developer of the Pyfedi software, aka Piefed.
Please do not confuse the two.
And if someone argues that it's still a shitty thing to do, I say: compile such lists from all fediverse instances and make an informed comparison. Let's see if piefed.social doesn't actually come out less shitty than some.
I've been half following this drama for a while now and so far I haven't seen any proof that @Rimu is the evil overlord some folks make him out to be. Neither a model of integrity, I guess. One of his biggest flaws seems to be that he engages too much with this shit.
People just see an opening in someone "powerful" (original software developer) and ... well, attack. "Speaking truth to power" they like to think, I guess.
I'm not a fanboi btw; give me real proof, not this whiny shit, I'm ready to change my mind. Until then, benefit of the doubt.
Literally in this post.
The Lemmy devs never encoded their personal beefs or political opinions into their software. They've always kept that to their own instance. There's bigger assholes administering other instances. But its only Rimu and Admiral Patrick tried to impose their opnions on other instances with hard coded block lists secret shadowban lists, and hidden social credit scores.
At least the Lemmy devs keep their beliefs to .ml, can't say the same for PieFed. They want their entire software to be talior made for all users to one person.
Its all been documented. no one owes you research lol, we're not at school/work.
Lmao