this post was submitted on 27 Mar 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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This is honestly the true price we’re paying for the Fediverse.
Reddit: one very well known billionaire enemy. Type fuck u/spez and try and cope.
Here: many instances (lemmy.zip, shitdoesntreallyworks, .ml etc) owned by spez clones who have no life and find random comments of other-instance users on their instance and instance ban them. And now apparently also for voting. The worst thing is that modlog doesn’t even properly display why and how and by whom you’re banned from that community. Or if it was instance or community level. Every week I see people who make sensible contributions permanently banned on the instance level and losing access to a community I mod because trigger happy owners have far too much power.
The Fediverse is not an improvement in this regard. And the worst part is this behaviour is often defended by an army of “just make another account” apologists.
Also notice that despite many reddit exoduses we’re still struggling to gain any meaningful monthly active users growth.
We need a system where admins can’t have sweeping powers, but saying that on here is not cool.
The point of federation isnt for each instance to be perfect. It's that you have options.