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.
Why is every maintainer of the threadiverse unhinged, like I switched to piefed partially because I disagreed with the politics of the Lemmy devs, and recently the piefed dev does weird stuff. Does making foss software really have that big of an effect on someone's mental health?
The unfortunate truth is people who are enamored with programming find it so enticing because it's a part of the universe that works exactly the way you tell it (for better or worse). Kind of like how kids who are traumatized build forts to hide in or something.
If code doesn't do what you want there's a way to fix it and make it behave. There seems to be a correlation where the best programmers can't tolerate the unpredictability of other human beings or reality...
To be clear, yes I'm a programmer too, and yes I built forts as a kid so this is speaking from experience from talking to other IT/programmer people 😂 it's a common theme I've noticed.
Because us developers, we are just a couple of nerds on the Internet. We didn't study public relations or politics at university, and don't know which spontaneous comment might generate a shitstorm. Unlike /u/spez we don't have a PR team writing posts for us. And because there is no profit motive, Lemmy and Piefed don't need to appeal to everyone like Reddit does. Consider it the price to pay for using a non-commercial platform.
It becomes tantalizing when you have your software running on others systems to see what you can get away with.
FOSS is notorious for egomaniacs. That's why there's so many forks and endless implementations of basically the same shit! Just with some new unpronounceable name that'll often be abandoned in short order.
It's because FOSS attracts libertarians and anarcho-NATOists (not exclusively). FOSS social media attracts liberals. Multiply all that by Reddit, well, you create my favorite bloodbowl ever. No offense you all probably mean well, on some level, but it's just people following different forms of idealism suddenly losing their shackles to one part of Silicon Valley. Interested to see where it all... ends up? Maybe it won't end up, it's not impossible.
Jessie what the fuck are you talking about
Don't get me started on Debs!