this post was submitted on 02 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:
- 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.
YTPB 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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Okay, you're not wrong... so I'll modify my statement and say that Lemmy is about as democratic as social media gets at this stage - which, I'll concede, isn't saying much.
This is making me despondent - well, more despondent than usual.
I mean it's only my opinion, and not super straightforward to apply these concepts. So my take on it might not be entirely right...
I'm not very disheartened. If I look at the Threadiverse, I definitely see some negative dynamics we inherited from social media. And I think the atmosphere could be better. More constructive and welcoming. Less geopolitics news articles... And it's far too easy to write simple truths and oppose people instead of writing nuanced comments with substance to them... We've had instances shutting down because there was too much responsibility in one single person and they burned out. Personally - I'd like to see several things handled differently.
But there's also a lot of fun to be had, potential... I think overall the mods and admins and developers are doing a good job. Things I deem unacceptable like hate and spam get deleted and other than that I'm relatively free to write whatever I like. The negative aspects I wrote in the previous paragraph are more concerned with the platform layout and the users anyway, and less so with the governing structure...
It's just difficult to manage a diverse crowd of people and cater to all of them. I'm not even sure if democracy is the correct solution for that. At least how it usually works in the real world with countries. We could come up with arbitrary direct forms of governing, since this place is powered by technology and software. I mean why appoint a fixed set moderators anyway? Software could just make every user have a web of trust and everyone could decide individually whom to delegate power to. Or who or what filters their perspective. We could get rid of admin power and follow a concept that's currently tried with Nostr which handles that part of the hierarchy very differently...
I think all of that hasn't been fully discussed yet. And it's difficult to come up with good solutions, because things come with downsides as well. Like fostering echo chambers which might not be great either. It's just difficult and complex. And nothing is perfect in the real world. And so far the Fediverse is the best Fediverse we have...