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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Rimu published yet another hit piece against the /0 instance and this time posted it in his own instance comms as well. One of his mods jumped in, admitted they don't know anything about anything, but nevertheless felt confident enough to state their opinion as fact and in the process insult all of us collectively, then stickied his opinion for good measure.

So I decided to reply sarcastically, at which point that mod insulted me and locked the thread, which is apparently a feature in piefed which simply hides/deletes further replies in that thread, but since it's not a feature in lemmy, it appears to function like a shadow delete.

This is what my last reply would have been.

(Yes I'm being snarky, but that "I'm so mature" bullshit just rubs me the wrong way.)

In my opinion, using mod powers to get the last insult in, is just bastard behaviour.

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's unhinged that he uses Samskara out of all people in his example. Just shows how well the tool is working, Samskara is one of the most blatant Zionists on Lemmy.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 days ago

Yes but according to lemmy.world admins we cannot be critical or report their comments. No matter how terrible they are

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

PTB. I'm gonna admit rimu's crashout and meltdown has been quite the spectacle. And running roughshod in the lemmy.world threads knowing he can't do shit or reply back because he banned me without cause has been kinda fun (and probably is the reason he crossposted to a comm that's on less neutral grounds), just sucks it comes at the expense of all you fine folks.

And replying right before locking a thread to make sure one gets the last word is absolute pissbaby behaviour. These people actually think they're being "the adults", confounding.

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[–] Vicinus@piefed.zip 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As an added facit to this PTB discussion, it looks like Rimu deleted the .world post that had a negate score while keeping the piefed.social one up (which has a positive score).

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I believe the world post was removed by the mod of the community

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 days ago

Is it the same one hanging their ass out in this post or the one that was doing it in the piefed post 🤔

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

do these people have control over the piefed instances ones like they do on lemmy. it is starting to make sense why the staments person account had a disagreement with some of the piefed people/admins, maybe it has something to do with allowing this to go on for so long.

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

PTB, Rimu has been crashing out big time over this for a while and I don't see it ending well for him. This was all because I called him a Zionist, and I think I was correct because he immediately defended Zionists getting banned from dbzer0.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 4 days ago (18 children)

That "shadow lock" thing sounds like a terrible feature. I'm so annoyed too because I posted a real tear of a rant at that one dude suggesting everyone read Proudhon. Buddy, I have got opinions on that kind of thing.

Real talk here though, wtf is going on? Every day there's some new assault on our instance and every time the thread is dogpiled with crypto-fascists and Zionists.

I've been on the net a very long time. I know what a Nazi infiltration looks like. It looks like the temperature on the board suddenly spiking, with huge arguments constantly breaking out that, somehow, magically, always start to turn towards topics that were "just asking questions" in ways to start etching and eroding the community standards. It starts by claiming everyone doing good moderation is a Zionist or a nazi, so they get kicked out and replaced by actual fascists.

I'm not worried about dbzer0 falling. I'm afraid that piefed already has. It did appear rather quickly, offering a slew of features to get folks off Lemmy. Would it be so strange if a state actor was promoting (and developing) it in order to gradually EEE their way into control here?

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Would it be so strange if a state actor was promoting (and developing) it in order to gradually EEE their way into control here?

Not at all. Also wouldn't surprise me if the people promoting piefed heavily weren't doing it organically.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 days ago

Well the good news is that your reply is still visible from our instance, so at least I get to enjoy it

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[–] Aspis@lemy.lol 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hi. Admin of Lemy.lol here.

This does not surprise me. When I joined the Lemy.lol team, I was informed that Rimu had pre-emptively defederated from us sometime ago due to our logo. Pepe the frog. His claim was that it was a symbol of alt-right hatred. There is a debate/discussion to be had around that, especially due to the fact the original creator vehemently stands against the bastardization of his creation, but Rimu refused to engage. His mind had been made up. This situation appears to be no different. He is searching for 'proof' to validate his claim of abuse by the administration team of Dbzer0. I suspect this extends from his similarly rabid reaction over the Lemmy.World admin abuse of Anarchist.nexus and its users.

Learning all of this, as well as his added tools to silence people critical of him, I find it both obscenely hypocritical and obscenely suspicious of his behavior here. This accusation appears to be some level of projection, more so than an actual rational conclusion. As we have all learned recently, people who frequently scream one specific conclusion are often guilty of helping come to this conclusion themselves.

Rimu has already been proven to be using a piefed feature to silence dissenting voices.

What else is he doing with Piefed?

Not merely a PTB, but a dangerous one. The developer of Piefed taking these stances deeply shakes all credibility of Piefed as a platform for myself. It appears to be a rebuilding of reddit from the ground up with Spez as its head. It is for this reason that I have fully recommended for Lemy.lol to not have a Piefed instance. Or, at the very least, not a basic piefed instance. We will gladly wait for a fork that has been sanitized.

[–] Salamence@mander.xyz 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I say he is building a worst reddit since he programmed social credit score into it

https://mander.xyz/post/46371251/24881755

Every user (remote or local) has an "attitude" which is calculated as follows: (upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes). If your "attitude" is < 0.0 you can't downvote.

Every account has a Social Credit Score, aka your Reputation. If your account has less than 100 reputation and is newly created, you are not considered "trustworthy" and there are limitations placed on what your account can do. Your reputation is calculated as upvotes earned - downvotes earned aka Reddit Karma. If your reputation is at -10 you also cannot downvote, and you can't create new DMs. It also flags your account automatically if your reputation is to low:

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It also violates basic compatibility with the fediverse. https://communick.news/comment/8015757

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a painful comment thread to slog through. Usually technical concerns aren't so clearly demonstrated and explained, and the same mods just derail the topic with astoundingly selective comprehension, just sheer crazymaking.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure that's the reason rimu says you can only ask questions or make comments about the code in a specific comm.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 days ago

They ever do anything about that or stop adding in their own stuff to the protocol?

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget it tracks comment quality as well. So not only it you post memes but gifs or reddits favorite phrase this

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What does the code look for when deciding if something is low quality? And how do they decide if someone is posting memes specifically? It just feels like it could easily lead to false positives if he did it poorly (or even if he didn't)

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (62 children)

Clear PTB.

Also a nonsensical thread to start with, all conjecture (but calling it fact). I believe someone has misplaced their poop knife or other shit stirring tool, and its making posts.

Edit: To be clear, I'm talking about the lack of mod action on what is a pretty obvious shit stirring / drama farming post, but instead making an incredibly illogical and uninformed comment about it instead, then taking mod action on snark - while also throwing insults around.

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

when I calmly explained that the tool I created did not, in fact, automagically upload a users entire history to ChatGPT, @Rimu@piefed.social just straight up said he wasn't interested in anything I had to say. he would rather stick to the egregious ignorance he displayed in his post than accept that he was wrong. he keeps making new threads about it and getting ratio'd by his own users because he would rather refuse to listen to the literal dozens of people telling him he's making a huge fuss about nothing, than admit he was wrong or overreacted.

of course we've seen how well that's gone for him.

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And here I am, scrolling through Lemmy like normal when I'll randomly catch glimpses of apparent Lemmy drama like this.

I don't really understand what's going on or who's at fault, all I know is every time there's some kind of instance-vs-instance bullshit, everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else and I just think "fuck it, I don't have the mental capacity to focus on trying to completely pull myself away from the bullshit"

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 days ago (10 children)

It's all good. Just grab the pop-corn and enjoy the fireworks :D

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[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wow such petty behaviour from a '50 year old'. You would think @Libb@piefed.social would act more mature.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

PTB. I’ve been annoyed with the Lemmy devs for their tankie bs and transphobia; it’s disappointing seeing the main Piefed dev get into stupid nonsense drama slapfights, especially when they’re indirectly carrying water for Zionist apologia

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 13 points 4 days ago

Rimu definitely pretty pathetic but this whole thing is pretty childish.

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