this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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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.

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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.

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 45 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 weeks ago

"Waah waaaah, the modlogs are unfair becuase they can be used to libel innocent people, I'll even patch my software so my server hides nasty things people say about me"

A few moments later...

"Harasser, Harasser, all of you are harassers! None of you is free of sin!"

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Offering to talk to resolve his grievances and apologising for any unintended offence is now harassment? :bc_rollingeyes:

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

Hopefully when @manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml runs the poll in ~5 months db0 and quokk have better showings than previously.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 3 weeks ago

Apparently me thinking its a simple thing with no real downside to just be fine with the change, and not seeing the problem - also harassment.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

“Orchestrated a coordinated harassment campaign.” That’s quite a claim; where’s the evidence?

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 weeks ago

The only thing I ever did was post screenshots of his own statements and evidence that he was either actively lying or being a confused old man.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Their response would probably involve a combination of deflecting, discrediting you, attacking you, and doubling down on their warped perceived reality.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's difficult enough to get 20+ people to agree on anything. Like what toppings on a pizza order. Much less a targeted smear campaign.

[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

and lemmy.ml people and dbzer0 people getting together? for a harassment campaign? I challenge you to make them agree.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair, dbzer0 and Lemmy.ml are not entirely at odds. Many users are on good terms.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago

orchestrated just means lots of people were doing it apparently lol

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago

The evidence is that whenever news about Rimu being terrible comes out or Piefed's terrible decisions as a platform come to light, I sometimes criticize Rimu and/or Piefed.

Probably hasn't pulled it out of his ass yet.

[–] placebo@piefed.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

See the harassment-compose.yaml file.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn, once again I'm left out 😔

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

You're not making enough waves, friendo

[–] NewDark@lemmy.today 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

That's sweet, thanks!

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Gotcha, seems this method of Rimu telling other admins to ban people he doesn't like is why Blahaj.Zone and feddit.org banned me around the same time as Piefed.social. Very fun to see where both of those instances stand.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Blahaj was literally the first instance that mass blocked people for wrongthink (instant PTB banning everyone left of him) after reddit exodus.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Makes sense. With Hexbear.net as an explicitly queer leftist instance, and the leftist instances in general being very LGBTQIA+ friendly, blahaj tends to attract those to the right of leftist instances, ie liberals.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 13 points 3 weeks ago

ah yes people would only do this if it was coordinated. Couldn't possibly be any of my actions