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).

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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.

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[–] 117 points 3 months ago (37 children)

When you aren't popular enough to make the list :(

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  • [–] 44 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    I'm out here posting commie shit every day and getting into fights about it. But occasionally I take a peek at MoG and I've never seen my name there, it's always just Cowbee this and Cowbee that. Now I don't even make the blocklist.

    What am I, chopped liver?

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    [–] 102 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

    The only thing I've ever said to him was pushing back against his criticism with screenshots of evidence that proved him wrong.

    He is not removing people for a coordinated harassment campaign. He is removing people to silence dissent and exert a stranglehold on his platform and his own ego.

    PTB is, quite literally, not strong enough. He is an active danger to the entire fediverse as a whole. He is dragging down credibility of any instance that runs Piefed and has proven that not only is he a manchild incapable of regulating his own emotions and ego.

    Piefed has become Chernobyl levels of radioactive. You can keep running a Piefed instance but you better expect questions on why you're helping to further this narcissistic psychopaths control and influence.

    It's also kind of strange that Iso@lemy.lol is on that list. They're a former admin of lemy.lol who had beef with Rimu but Rimu defederated from lemy.lol a while ago over their logo. The fact that he's banning that user in amongst all the others kind of proves that this is a personal hitlist and not harassment. Otherwise, why are you banning a user that you've defederated from?

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  • [–] 47 points 3 months ago

    He is dragging down credibility of any instance that runs Piefed

    No one who runs Piefed had credibility to begin with, it's a tantrum in software form, developed for the sole purpose of owning the tankies

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  • [–] 83 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    @Rimu@piefed.social has completely destroyed his reputation by this point, and likely has thoroughly destroyed public perception of piefed. He is continuing to prove he is exactly the threat people have said the Lemmy devs will be.

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    [–] 69 points 3 months ago

    scared

    Good thing Piefed is very anti-authoritarian :)

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  • [–] 65 points 3 months ago (24 children)

    Those users are probably going to end up in a banned list hardcoded in the program.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 months ago (17 children)

    Well, he already admitted that guardrails should have been put up on lemmy to prevent memes from taking root. So why not put up guardrails for users he doesn't like?

    Oh wait.

    He did.

    He made an anti-cm0002 filter.

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    [–] 64 points 3 months ago (36 children)
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    "Waah waaaah, the modlogs are unfair becuase they can be used to libel innocent people, I'll even patch my software so my server hides nasty things people say about me"

    A few moments later...

    "Harasser, Harasser, all of you are harassers! None of you is free of sin!"

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    [–] 56 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    PTB, he banned me for screenshotting the public group chat.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (19 children)

    Rimu's also banned people who never interact with Piefed.social like myself simply if people like PugJesus make harassment posts about them (which feddit.org and blahaj.zone followed through with too). This is more blatant as it's even less targeted and includes people I've never seen break any rules, like Edie.

    From MeanwhileOnGrad, against me:

    ableism, misgendering

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  • [–] 45 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Ah cool, siding with PugJesus, one of the most obsessively weird and hostile online bullies I've seen.. I honestly just assumed they were a long-gone weirdo, but apparently they're still doing their thing.

    If it isn't already, this method of moderating inevitably ends up with your instance being full of nazis. Piefed.social not looking to have a happy future.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months ago

    Yea, a lot of non-fascists join Piefed.social because it's the Dev instance, especially because Piefed is so heavily promoted on Reddit, but over time people tend to leave to better instances if they don't agree with Rimu and his gang of bullies.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Lol, you're like one of the chillest and least unhinged posters on fedi.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago

    Thanks! I try to be more chill, people being at each other's throats isn't very productive for learning so I try to balance it out. It does go to show that those opposed to leftists will despise you no matter how you treat them or others if you're consistent.

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    [–] 52 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    what's with this desperate cry for attention from him lately? why can't he just go back to being the person nobody fucking remembers until he breaks something in Piefed again?

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    [–] 50 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Hi. Admin of lemy.lol here who is also on that list.

    I have made 5 comments in total and have not commented in the matrix channels. I have also made a single comment about Rimu. This.

    Rimu is incapable of handling basic criticism. If an admin is such a threat that a single comment about him constitutes a 'coordinated harassment campaign', then Rimu and Piefed.social must be defederated en masse. We at lemy.lol would do so if he didn't defederate from us over his perception of a frog.

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    [–] 50 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    Soooo hes killed piefed with consistently idiotic behaviour. (I'm being kind here)

    Hopefully the fork takes off and saves the project.

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    [–] 49 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    This confirms everything I said about piefed months ago. I even made a piefed account and brought up concerns, only to be told the "anti-tankie" controls were for everyone's own good.

    Sucks to suck.

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    [–] 46 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I would like to know what I did that constitutes harassment. I'm pretty sure I just got banned for being in the threads.

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    [–] 43 points 3 months ago (95 children)

    Remind me again why y’all have piefed instances?

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  • [–] 55 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    I don't know. But it's gotten to the point that I don't trust any piefed instances anymore at all. Rimu pushed a piece of code into Piefed a few days ago specifically to silence criticism against him and to silently delete/block posts on Piefed. He is exerting such an extreme amount of control onto the entire platform itself that I cannot trust the platform itself.

    Every piefed instance, as far as I'm concerned at this point, comes with an enormous asterisk.

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    [–] 42 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    "these people don't hide that they don't like me and since I have a tiny iota of power I'm gonna ban them! Grr I'm angy! >:[ see it has an actual reason, I'm not whining! "

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    [–] 41 points 3 months ago*

    Extreme PTB. This is bad, especially after seeing how rimu tried to malign dbzer0 recently. Very ban-happy behaviour from the piefed admin.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Well his claim of stepping away from public interactions latest as long as expected

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    [+] 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)
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    [–] 37 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    why would the liberal ban so many liberals?

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    [–] 34 points 3 months ago

    Alas, yes, PTB.

    While any given instance can freely ban people for whatever reason, making reasons up is always gone to be PTB.

    If they'd just said they didn't like the people and didn't want them around? Shitty, but only PTB on a technicality, in that that's something an admin shouldn't use as criteria. Yeah, I know that seems fucking weird, but there is a degree of personal choice when running an instance. Nobody has to let in people they don't like. On a small instance, it wouldn't matter.

    But on that instance, it matters. If you're going to play the heavy on a flagship instance, you've got a higher standard to meet. If that's not in your capabilities, you shouldn't be running a main instance. Foist that work off to someone temperamentally inclined to not screw the pooch. But if you're going to be pulling that kind of thing, be honest. Don't make up bullshit reasons, it destroys your credibility and shows that you are, indeed, in it for the power fantasy to some degree or another.

    Say what you want about the names on that list as members of the fediverse at large, but half of those names are well known to not abuse power, and the more recognizable ones sure as hell aren't organizing any harassment. Even if only because they're recognizable. They'd be smart enough to create a random account unconnected to their main ones.

    So, yeah, PTB and full of malarkey

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Put a fork in it, folks, it's done

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago

    Shame on Rimu. They clearly shouldn't be in any position of authority.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago*

    Oh my god the lolcowery continues.

    This is just embarassing.

    ... See this is where it becomes highly obvious that if you sent this person like a physical, 'Power Tripping Bastard' award, a 3d printed statuette or medallion or something, they'd just continue to lose their shit in a more extreme way.

    Like in a roundabout way... dude literally needs help, and I feel bad for him. Very much needs to touch grass for a couple of months, take a vacation from the internet, get those cortisol levels back to reasonable.

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