1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

Snoopy

2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Community ban

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).

I woke up to suddenly being banned with a dm that was misgendering me. It appears the real reason I was banned was due to fact I was critical of Piefed's recent actions.

Snoopy has no evidence that “I personally released the exploits into the wild" It was actually @yogthos@lemmy.ml who did the deed. I'm not technically enough to be pull it off, nor do I want to.

5. Explain why you think it’s unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Hopefully unbanned and unblocked.

@recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca banned me from Lemmy.ca, with the following explanation:

Fascism and genocide apologia and propaganda. Fedia.io mods/admins what the fuck guys

which... yeah I don't think I did that. I messaged them twice (once on their .ca account and once on their Piefed account) and got no response. I have no idea how to prove wrongdoing on their part since no particular comment or post was highlighted, but the last thing I said on a .ca comm before the ban was this, which is like what? I didn't say anything even remotely close to fascism and I seriously have no idea what brought that on; anyway glances at the rules I guess it would be nice if the ban was revoked so I can go shit on Carney on c/Canada.

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).

Done

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.

Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
Rimu

What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Kicking from all Matrix PieFed rooms

Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Rimu has been manufacturing non-stop drama for weeks. He ignores multiple offers from multiple parties to de-escalate, and now he bans someone for trying to promote non-discriminatory language. He has also now cut off a PieFed admin from any and all support and ability to contribute to the software.

Oh and the real kicker ? Rimu did all this after his big grand post about how he is stepping back from drama and hiding away from users.

A random awful.systems user posted the recent disinfo about the FAF using LLMs for moderation. I went in and tried to clarify the situation, and I admit I got kinda upset when they kept ignoring my statements in order to be snarky. Eventually I believed we reached an understanding but I was sadly mistaken which I should have imagine as awful.systems residents kept downvoting all my replies.

As I finished writing a post to explain our official instance policy, I noticed they just jumped to defederation anyway, the reason being...the same disinfo I just went through a lot of effort to debunk. They just called my debunking of the disinfo as "DARVO" which is just disgusting trivialization of harasser behaviour by @dgerard, but I digress.

Anyway I finished my post and once I posted it in our instance, I thought they would at least allow me simply to link to it to provide what we actually believe.

Lol, nope, instant delete and ban

Here's their charming admin casually admitting that even though we explicitly told them this is not what we're doing, they just going to disbelieve and make up their own headcanon.

Anyway, I shouldn't be surprised, dgerard has been known to spread disinfo, so this is just more of the same.

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.

Moderator on dbzero /Palestine believes pointing out that 80-90% of Jews worldwide are Zionists is antisemitic

Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

Emopunker (an Admin)

What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

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).

I was politely showing, with evidence, how a recent post was misinformation.

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/aa428884-92d2-4656-8053-790a636025b0.webp - larger version if this is too small to read.

Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

It was unfair as I was providing accurate information, with verifiable evidence to counter a users hearsay.

I would like my comment restored and the actual misinformation to be removed.

An account on Feddit.org is pushing a screenshot of a conspiracy theory that shows db0 is run by Nazis. Zero evidence is supplied except a link that mysteriously doesn't work. Of course Feddit.org is eating this up as all the proof they needed.

When arguing against that and how suspicious it is that a user was browsing this site at all to happen to discover a month old post that conveniently portrayed a plan by Nazis to take over the instances who defederated feddit.org for Zionism.

Knowing how important following German law is for Feddit.org, I inquired as to if libel was against the law. I was informed that it was and calling people Nazis was libel (i.e. exactly what the post they are hosting is doing).

I was than banned for apparently calling someone a Nazi? (I never did, you can see that below) yet in the modlog the actual reason given was bad-faith, because I did not blindly accept a easily falsified screenshot.

The admin in question is Emopunker@feddit@feddit.org

This evidence continues a history of bad-faith and outright lying by the administration at Feddit.org.

I will investigate reporting this to the German authorities, it is unacceptable that Feddit.org will call people Nazis with the full support of the administration staff.

Y'all know about Anarchist Nexus and Lumnous5481 putting "Murder all Zionists" in their display name, verbatim, leading to predictable strife with other instance personnel they were implicitly or explicitly calling to murder. I had several arguments here amounting to, it doesn't really matter how bad you think the group in question is; you can't just say 'kill them all' and act aghast when people have follow-up questions.

Two days after the last of these arguments, MysticMushroom1776 decided that 'it's not a matter of who' was too apologistic, and banned me from all the communities they control. None of which I've ever posted in or care about. Okay.

I think I downvoted a post on MeanwhileOnWorld once, and if that's the impetus, Christ, that's sad.

Some arguments in the thread was that this was some bullshit rumour that was started by neo-nazi admins of dbzer0.com or from some .ml instances.

It's easy to point fingers and make up rumours, but this is a genuine concern. Whether it's at lemmy.world or dbzer0.com or anywhere else.

This is the responsibility of the communities to call these people out. Whether they are neo-nazis or zionists, it doesn't matter. They should not be moderating any instances.

Finally, if there is any real proof of this, can people share it here? Like posts, comments, modlogs?

So I found an article about a journalist losing his job for asking why only Russia should pay for reparation and not Israel too . The comments is full of apologia for Israel and genocide, so I start answering multiple comments. The mod givesomefucks banned me claiming that I am spamming in an old post but the post is new

https://lemmy.world/post/46104966?scrollToComments=true

Banned from lemmy world completely for reporting tos breaking comments like this https://lemmy.world/comment/23350098 in a single thread https://lemmy.world/post/45909721.

Almost undoubtedly in retaliation from Serinous for calling out all their other removals and bans

https://lemmy.world/post/45982249

Update rogue mod flat out admits it and apologizes to the account doing tos breaking comments.

https://lemmy.world/post/45982249/23425409

Well done world, well fucking done

Not my account, but want to advocate for it. Because of, personally, I find it hilarious.

So, it seems like a mod with username MysticMushroom1776 @lemmy.dbzer0.com has some interesting policies about interacting with their content.

I agree that this user called PyroRondo has no content for 5 months straight. This is unusual but totally isn't against any rules of Lemmy.

As I suspect, they reacted to a few posts of MysticMushroom1776 @lemmy.dbzer0.com during random session of content scrolling. No brigading or any other types of harassment. I even suspect that these reactions were in communities connected to mod's AI art, not political ones.

And this for some reason triggered a ban in all comunities. Not in 1 or 2. Moreover, it seems like this mod uses specialized tools, that allow to track downvotes on their content made by other users with ability to get their usernames. I may be wrong, but I don't think that such tools are basic for moderators on Lemmy.

Edit: typo.

My comment was removed for "misinformation"

https://crazypeople.online/post/18266774

Apparently the mod likes using euphemisms for their extracting wealth from other productive members of society and really dislikes being reminded.

• https://piefed.social/modlog?suspect_user_name=rimu%40piefed.social
• https://piefed.social/modlog?suspect_user_name=skavau%40piefed.social

Actions / comments showing that Piefed.social supports Palestine

• https://piefed.social/c/ask/p/1488874/why-is-there-symbol-of-islam-as-piefed-social-logo
• https://piefed.social/comment/8914094

I made a number of comments in the post. @Serinus@lemmy.world is now policing how many you are allowed to have.

Here is the Announcement thread in general, in case you are unaware.

Serinus also claims 'Misinformation' for these comments

Ding ding ding. Hexbear and other instances get consideration and talked about behind the scenes. Anarchist.nexus was defederated by MrKaplan privately without any consideration at all from other admins. Kaplan even went out of their way to contact admins of other instances to attempt to get them to defederate from anarchist.nexus as well. When pressed about the popularity of anarchist.nexus, Kaplan then said "I don't know how you define relatively large, on fedidb they're listed as having 71 monthly active users" which led to someone else saying "That's top 10 for Piefed servers, according to fedidb. It would be top 40 for lemmy. We aren't swimming in the pacific here on the Fediverse. This is a small pond to begin with." A small pond that MrKaplan desperately wants to be the only big fish in. # Lemmy.world is using their position to bully smaller communities.

This is not, in fact, misinformation. I listed the screenshots in another comment directly proving this as correct. Here is that screenshot.

Correct. Also, this is quite important, but MrKaplan didn't talk to anyone else about this either. There was an instant and knee jerk response by the admins for this but they took literal weeks to do absolutely nothing about Jordan while saying they were looking into it for weeks. They, quite clearly, have made priorities.

Also not misinformation. Here is the screenshot from Kaplan admitting they never messaged anyone.

Anything to say, Serinus?

Edit: Of course he doesn't. He just banned me for 'sealioning and harassment'.

I got 2 comments removed and a 1-day ban from lemmy@lemmy.ml (of course it's .ml 🙄) for violating 'rule 2', which doesn't exist, at least not in the sidebar.

I'm willing to consider that 'rule 2' is about discussing .ml, but the second comment was a definition. nutomic@lemmy.ml got his fefes hurt by a dictionary.

Thread in question: https://lemmy.zip/post/62996430

Edit: fucking lol I didn't expect everyone here to be a fucking hypocrite. As I've been told, Rule 2 on .ml is be respectful. Was OP being respectful when they insulted LW? Bunch of backpedalling ignants.

1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
No clue🤷‍♀️

2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
community ban+removed comments.^Theory^

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).
Thanks Warl0k3 @lemmy.world for retrieving the deleted comments!

5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
If genocide praxis is “progressive politics,” I want @TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to answer how Islam is a progressive religion.

Note that I allowed Maeve the time to answer if “blasphemous” killings are sanctimonious.

Theory:
It could also be that that lemmy server exploit that soulism.net employs, where as as admin, you can “own” a community, and ban them in your instace, and it federates.

after the recent disgraceful behavior in YPTB where @deceptichum@quokk.au was banned by @MrKaplan@lemmy.world for being a "troll", I banned MrKaplan preemptively from !anarchymemes@anarchist.nexus, as I do anyone who displays zionist tendencies. the ban reason was for "zionism, genocide apologia". calling someone pointing out the FHF's long history of zionism and protecting zionist users a "troll" and saying they are acting in "bad faith" is absolutely zionism, and zionism is genocide apologia. at the same time, I also banned @recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca for also banning @deceptichum@quokk.au, with a suspiciously similar ban message.

this aggravated @MrKaplan@lemmy.world, who then started asking around about me to find out more information. they quickly found my profile, which as anyone who has been around AN or dbzer0 might know, has always been rather spicy when it comes to the US and Israel.

“scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds”

queer armed militant anarchist. death to the United States, and death to Israel! the only good zionist is a dead zionist.

my display name at the time was also Luminous5481 "Murder all zionists" [they/them]. this wasn't aimed at MrKaplan, but rather zionism as an ideology in general. it has long been my very vocal opinion that there is no appreciable difference between the state of Israel and Nazi Germany, nor between zionism and nazism. both nations are guilty of having engaged in genocide over the span of years, something determined by the ICC, if not the eyes and ears of anyone who has seen the shocking scenes of Israeli terrorism coming from Gaza these past years.

however, this rightfully calling for the death of a ideology that is incompatible with anarchism, and the rest of humanity in general, was enough for MrKaplan to not only instance ban me, but entirely defederate the instances under the control of the FHF cabal from Anarchist Nexus.

but that wasn't enough. they also contacted other admins of popular instances, and encouraged them to defederate from AN and dbzer0, claiming that the other admins of the flotilla had refused to do anything about it, despite MrKaplan immediately defederating as soon as he raised his concerns with our team. this obviously is a blatant lie, likely to cover for the fact that he most likely did not bother reaching a consensus with the other LW admins over his actions before he took them. but idk about that, it's only my speculation. I only know what he and other admins have said behind closed doors to our team.

the fact of the matter is that wishing death to zionists is a popular opinion among leftists. it's one that I've held for years, and it didn't suddenly go away when Israel accelerated their genocide in 2023. nor did it go away when the German government, and certain German instances and users threw their support behind a genocidal regime intent on wiping out a race and religion they see as subhuman. did I say it more often or more plainly than plenty of other leftists? sure! but do not assume that the opinion is not shared by many who oppose an ideology that, like the nazis, is the enemy of all mankind.

for now, I have graciously offered to step down as admin, in the hopes that the FHF will stop throwing their weight around to bully smaller instances and suppress the free speech of the people. it's one thing to ban a user for a viewpoint you don't like. it's another thing to defederate from an instance, and then threaten other instances to get them to defederate as well. it's another thing to go around telling everyone they should defederate simply because you are offended at an opinion that should be shared by all who love humanity. of course, some might say that this is entirely because I accused the "FHF team members of being zionists while simultaneously calling for zionists to be murdered". but if that were true, then why has MrKaplan not also defederated from lemmy.ml, despite many of their users being just as vocal as I am ? there's a big difference between AN and ML, and that difference is user count. MrKaplan feels he can get away with throwing his weight around and demanding other instances censor themselves according to his views when it's an instance that's smaller than LW. and I'm not asking to be unbanned. I really do not care about "missing out" on LW. but at the very least? MrKaplan should not be censoring other instances and maliciously attacking them behind their back by seeking defederation from other admins. and he certainly should not be doing it in the dark, where nobody can see or comment.

UPDATE: @rimu@piefed.social also banned me for "death threats", something which doesn't show up in the modlog because I've never used that instance for anything.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46148690

Over the past few days, @MrKaplan@lemmy.world/@MrKaplan@piefed.world has banned multiple users, blocked entire comms, and now defederated from Anarchist.Nexus over their anti-Zionist stance.

This extreme overreaction and general power trippin' bastard behavior stems from Lemmy.world's history of pro-Zionist views. And now MrKaplan is seeking out the flimsiest pretext to to enact his own personal vendetta.

Free Palestine, Death to Israel, Death to Zionism.

Lemmy.world is a ZioNazi instance. Avoid it like the plague.

Noticed I got caught in a wave of bans by the mod of apologiafreenews@lemmy.world after downvoting their obvious distraction propaganda. They got pissy in the comments because their first post got heavily downvoted. So they deleted that post, banned everyone that downvoted, then posted it again to game the system. Classy. I wonder how lemmy.world admins feel about mods abusing their authority like this.

Original post: https://lemmy.world/post/45785126
New post: https://lemmy.world/post/45804062
Completely normal comment in between: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/e8b1e023-d087-4121-941d-f2010ed1a7af.png
Ban (for 2 downvotes): https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/279c070d-936c-41c4-86ba-f767d59fca08.png

*Also, still can't block communities we've been banned from on the community page. What a joke.

1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
@recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca
2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
instance ban
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.
@recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca felt the need to act on Lemmy.world's behalf and follow their instance ban, with their own. Trying to paint critcism of the Fedihosting Foundation as 'trolling' and that I am a bad faith poster despite being 100% and authentic in everything I do and never once using Bad Faith. I've never even once had a post or comment on lemmy.ca require moderation, and had only ever contributed with useful posts to the TIL or Music comm.

Overall a rather shameful display from an otherwise upstanding instance and clear sign of this being a targeted move as it's now the 4th instance ban in 2 days despite never receiving one prior.

1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
@MrKaplan@piefed.world
2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
instance ban
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.
@MrKaplan@lemmy.world has decided that one can only say nice things about the company or else you're a troll despite having years long legitimate user history. No rules were broken, only @MrKaplan@piefed.world's feelings. Furthermore I wasn't even the one to call them "and shitlibs" (The FHF is, I just didn't say it) - yet @MrKaplan@piefed.world has decided we both should get instance banned for this.

Good to know that Lemmy.world and the Fedihosting Foundation will tolerate StoneToss and Jago but draw the line at their company being called, a real unofficial rule being enforced on multiple users now.

And Hi @mrkaplan@discuss.online, I know you're watching these threads now :) I made this for you

Edit:

They’ve updated the ban, I’m now banned for stuff I did after being instance banned and not even visible from their instance.

Nice to know you enjoy my FHF meme MrKaplan!