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.

Rules


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.


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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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[–] Quokka@quokk.au 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Lemmy is open source and doesn’t have ableist function names, but ydy

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

On my list of least favorite languages, Python is number 2, right after English.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 2 points 3 weeks ago

were you offering to help them, or just bragging about how you understood something they didn't?

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

ableist function names

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 😆

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

null has been around for I think longer than Rimu.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

I think both arrived during the Reddit APIcalypse like me.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 weeks ago

I preferred when I had no idea about either of them but damn null is nasty

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Lol multiple people can see with their own 2 eyes that Mia said she thinks Rimu is a transphobe?

Must be an alt!

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Except she didn’t, she took the instances ideals as the reason the instance was shadowbanned as Rimu provided no actual reason.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you need me to quote it for you? She said she assumes the reason is that Rimu is anti-left and transphobic.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Because you’re a lying piece of shit, I’ll quote it for you

Apparently for ' obvious reasons ', of which I can only assume is our left leaning anarchist/pro-trans stance

Does that say Rimu is transphobic or that quokka.au is pro-trans? Go on tell me champ.

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[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is like the 5th time someone has said that and no have not seen any evidence.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can only assume is our left leaning anarchist/pro-trans stance

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 weeks ago (32 children)

Yes describing what the instance is. Where's the claim?

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

as it so happens, I believe @quokka@quokk.au has a fork without those ableist function names