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:
- 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.
- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
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.
YPTB 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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Easily modified code base?
Lemmy is open source and doesn’t have ableist function names, but ydy
Quokk.au used to be Lemmy, I tried changing some text on a page once it was near impossible with how obscurificated everything was across multiple files. With PieFed and Python I'm able to easily change large parts and can understand the project so much easier.
Lemmy feels more like an enterprise level app, whereas PieFed feels like something you can run on your home server and hack away at.
On my list of least favorite languages, Python is number 2, right after English.
Hey, let's create a thread about language preference and utilities elsewhere, ’cause I am interested in your perspectives, and blatantly I don't want to OT.
I run Lemmy on a home server no prob. I've been able to hack away at the UI in the past without much issue. Idk. Once you know where things are, its not that hard.
were you offering to help them, or just bragging about how you understood something they didn't?
Which ones? Not coming to PieFed's defense [1], just want to bask in yet another PieFed L, and I'm not personally that tapped in when it comes to the actual code in Lemmy and PieFed.
[1] Don't pay attention to the software my instance is running lol, I just wanted anarchist.nexus in my domain name to make my anarchism completely obvious 😆
I’ll bask in knowing that Mia knew exactly what I meant at least.
Okay now I'm like 90% sure that null account is a rimu alt.
They're both using that rimus not transphobic line as a defense to try and deflect
null has been around for I think longer than Rimu.
I think both arrived during the Reddit APIcalypse like me.
I preferred when I had no idea about either of them but damn null is nasty
Lol multiple people can see with their own 2 eyes that Mia said she thinks Rimu is a transphobe?
Must be an alt!
Except she didn’t, she took the instances ideals as the reason the instance was shadowbanned as Rimu provided no actual reason.
Do you need me to quote it for you? She said she assumes the reason is that Rimu is anti-left and transphobic.
Because you’re a lying piece of shit, I’ll quote it for you
Does that say Rimu is transphobic or that quokka.au is pro-trans? Go on tell me champ.
This is like the 5th time someone has said that and no have not seen any evidence.
Yes describing what the instance is. Where's the claim?
as it so happens, I believe @quokka@quokk.au has a fork without those ableist function names