this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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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:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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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.


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UniversalMonk, PapaSkwat, DonaldJMusk, TheSilentNickel, QuantumTickler, his communities are full of Astro turfing sock puppets.

EDIT: My list of sock puppets. I doubt it's perfect and I may have picked up a few that weren't him

Area15@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today
EndlessApollo@hilariouschaos.com
EndlessApollo@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
KaratinBandit@feddit.uk
PapaSkwat@lemmings.world
PapaSkwat@lemmy.today
PhilipsHurtFeelings@crazypeople.online
QuantumTickle@maga.place
Rhoerii@lemy.lol
Snatchdaddy@hilariouschaos.com
TheSilentNickel@feddit.org
barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf
donaldjmusk@maga.place
thesilentnickel@lemmy.today
thesilentnickel@lemmyusa.com
donaldjmusk@lemmyusa.com
quantumtickler@hilariouschaos.com
quantumtickler@feddit.org
quantumtickler@lemmy.myserv.one

To the mods of this comm, I understand this isn't a post complaining about a mod action taken against me. It's hardly even a complaint against a mod, although he does mod a handful of communities. I know it's a hard-to-prove personal message that the accused will deny sending or say was a joke he told a troll, his word vs mine. But this is beyond the usual actions mods take. This is abuse of the fediverse, harrassment, ban evasion, and vote manipulation.

I believe the situation to be self evident even without this message that the users who frequent DonaldJMusk's comms are primarily him with a new username on a new server and they're leaking out into other communities with ill intent.

If action is to be taken against this post, I ask that it be locked and not deleted.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sorry but this is out of scope for this community. Also y'all can't behave. Reminder that the burden of proof is on the accuser. You can't prove a negative (i.e. "prove such-and-such isn't Universal Monk")

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 93 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Sometimes when I feel like a failure or I’m not applying myself enough in life, then I read shit like this and realize I’m doing just fine .

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Considering we're not anything like the users who spin bots to harass people, we're probably doing pretty okay. I'm weird but I'm not that weird.

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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 57 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's kind of funny that he thinks people don't know that he's a reactionary wet fart. Anyone who watches the stupid side of the threadiverse with any kind of regularity can see the pattern.

He thinks he's being subtle, but Lemmy smells out right-wing bullshit better than most places on the Web. Nobody likes what he's selling.

[–] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He's after a captive audience because we know better. He thinks his ideas, or maybe just his chaos, is more acceptable when said by somebody that isn't him but NOBODY is buying his anti-Luigi comments.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this place isn't Reddit; there's not a culture of ironic fascism to hide behind on Lemmy/ Piefed.

It's part of why I like it here.

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[–] dil@lemmy.zip 14 points 7 months ago

The type of person who joined lemmy because they were tired of propoganda is not about to fall for that same proproganda, especially to this mf who think he is being subtle

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 44 points 7 months ago (61 children)

Obligatory fuck UniversalMonk and his stupid AI character in each of his accounts' pfp. Dude is easily the worst parts of the fediverse wrapped up in a shit bow. Just block lemmy.today its a fascist instance. Same with the lemmyusa.today one or whatever.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The bigger problem here is that lemmy.today is being used as a gateway for astroturfing. That's the issue that needs fixing here.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Isn't the point of the federation to enable defederating rogue instances, or am I wrong on that?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hot take: this is why automatic federation is a bad idea. Even if your malicious instance gets defederated, you can just spin up a new one!

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 16 points 7 months ago

I imagine eventually automatic federation will stop being a thing for a lot of instances.

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[–] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 18 points 7 months ago

I never liked the idea of blocking. Shoving my fingers in my ears and singing "la la la" allows these antics to continue unchallenged. Besides, they're not all on one instance.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 12 points 7 months ago (13 children)

I picked Lemmy.today because it allows me to block instances instead of the admins deciding which to defed from. But I do acknowledge that it allows a lot of freaks in.

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[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I tagged a couple more a while back that I thought might be him.

[–] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

PhilipsHurtFeelings and WilliamFBuckley are on my short list too. I have my suspicions about barrygoldwater, his trans best friend. Any account that has ever posted in a greenparty comm or there's a third_party one out there now too he's started.

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

BarryGoldwater is 100%. If I remember correctly DJM and Barry accounts were created at the same time. Like minutes apart with same shitty AI avatar and everything.

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[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what Russia would be like if the majority of them actually gave a fuck about their current living standards instead of just being fucking loser trolls obsessed with America

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of a post I read from a Russian tourist that visited Warsaw who was pissed off that the city was so nice and clean, whereas most of Russia is an unkempt shitheap.

Mind you he was not mad that Russia was a shitheap, he was mad that _Poland was not _

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I remember that, it’s fucking crazy what the propaganda can do and shape someone’s world view like that. I just was reading that totally aghast that their mind could go to the completely opposite of what it should

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[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can usually tell them because they all have similarly styled AI generated avatars and some random libertarian quote in their bio.

[–] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"Why are you mad at me? I didn't write the article." or talking about Lemmy as if we're all one big 70-IQ liberal or posting 90% in communities he mods. He's not good at it, but it's happening nonetheless.

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[–] Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Just a reminder to this individual.

You have to make dozens of clone accounts to make it appear as though your opinion is agreed with.

We don't. Nice cope.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 21 points 7 months ago

I'd just like to add that piefed.social, Rimu has already banned a lot of these accounts.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (17 children)

It’s that no-lifer, UniversalMonk. How do people not know this? That dude threatened me in PM. It’s what got him banned among other things.

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[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Damn he really sat down and wrote all that

[–] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Him, grok, it's hard to tell. But it's his actions that speak the loudest.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure Grok can spell, "hiring."

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[–] yuri@pawb.social 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

ahhh that makes sense. the most upsetting thing to me is how much of his own time he’s wasting. like literally everyone who sees his stuff immediately clocks him as either playing a character, or too stupid to interact with.

just a sad, sad person.

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[–] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I posted about this a month or so ago. I only uncovered PapaSkwat at the time. DJM was supposedly targeted by a downvote botnet months ago and he suspected a !PapaSkwat@lemy.lol, but considering how he's letting a user with that name post in his comms I'm willing to bet that DonaldJMusk did it to himself to garner pity.

Well, he certainly has my pity.

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[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 14 points 7 months ago

That guy sounds like a complete cunt. Absolute waste of oxygen. Here's hoping horrific things happen to him and his team of turds. Enjoy hell, cyka.

[–] QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I downvoted several of his more daring lies and now he follows me around everywhere under the PapaSkwat name.

He calls you Aaron, too, huh?

[–] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 13 points 7 months ago

He messaged me like he knew me. I think he tells himself that he only has 1 person downvoting his stuff. Maybe there was an Aaron in the past? I don't really care, I just want him to fuck off.

[–] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

He has a ~~pension~~ penchant for creating accounts mocking people that troll him such as QuantumTickle, pooperNickel, PapaSkwat, DarkDecay, and probably others. Sometimes he steals their name, sometimes he is almost original.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Thanks for posting this. UniversalMonk is a cancerous cunt.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are these all based from lemmy.today?

[–] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Skavau@piefed.social 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

You should put in the instances they're operating from so people can investigate. Or are you saying they're all from every instance that comes up in search?

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