this post was submitted on 15 Jan 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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Not sure if I'm ready to assume/accept that. But good video and good to keep in mind. Thanks.
It's an odd situation that we're in where everyone understands that social media is swarming with bots and also are mostly unwilling to believe that it is affecting the social media that they personally use.
I don't think that lemmy is a big enough target for that, frankly. It's not like this is Twitter, instagram, bluesky or Facebook.
On the scale of intelligence agencies it requires very, very few resources to pay some minimum wage call center workers to manage moderator/admin accounts on every social media site where they're capable of creating such accounts.
We know for a fact that they use Telegram channels, population around 80-100k, to push content. It doesn't seem a stretch to think they'd be interested in communities on Lemmy with similarly sized userbases.
I mean, it could also just be people who have been conditioned by social media to be primed for outrage and self-righteousness or a mod having a bad day.
That being said, if there are bots on social media (and we know there are), where they would want to be and what they would want to be doing? Hosting a far left instance (or far right instance) is on brand as is forming an echo chamber by purging non-aligned members.
It may not be a duck, but it's sure quacking and eating a lot of peas