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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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Rimu recently started a new rant thread. I copied the response of the person they had targeted and in less than a minute Rimu had deleted the comment.

This is the comment Rimu did not want people being able to see: https://feddit.uk/post/53824748/26875911

This is the thread I shared it on: https://feddit.uk/post/53824747

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 34 points 1 month ago (5 children)

good news, nobody who like Piefed has to use it. we've gotten PyLova to the point it's running Quokk.au and Anarchist.Nexus, and we've not only removed the censorship and the bias, but we've also improved the UI, made some new themes, and most important of all patched some security vulnerabilities.

at this point it's better than Piefed in every way.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just curious, but why not use Lemmy instead?

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 12 points 1 month ago

there's a lot of features that PyLova has that Lemmy does not.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For me in particular:

  • reactions (prevents rank abuse)
  • tags
  • mirror integration
  • multi-com interactivity
  • remote instance cannot delete posts/comments by default (gaslight abuse)
  • <img height="auto">

Other stuff idcb:

  • polls
  • comment voting (stackoverflow)
[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

one of the biggest for me is the ability to disable downvotes for people who aren't from trusted servers. we have a lot of :slopper: downvoting anything genAI they see. restricting downvotes to exclusively FAF instances wiped out the problem.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 1 points 1 month ago

I use the term “rank” now, because pylova/fed already implemented comment voting, as in, if you post a question, anyone can vote for answers. It's meant to give pylova stackoverflow behaviours: best voted answer get pinned up. Ranking a comment or post doesn't affect how folks pin comments on a question post.

[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

If I wanted to take advantage of this would I need to post from an anarchist.nexus account, or would the community have to be on anarchist.nexus?

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

the community would need to be on a pylova/piefed instance, but you do not need to be on that instance.

[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

I see, thanks for the reply.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 month ago

Just wanna say the new themes slap, got my vaporwave fix.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's the differences between PyLova and Lemmy? Why use it over Lemmy?

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 7 points 1 month ago

PyLova has a lot more features than Lemmy does.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

More features, faster updates.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is my first hearing of PyLova, could I get a rundown? Is it a fork of piefed? Seperate project? Are there things it has that piefed doesnt, or things piefed has that PyLova doesnt currently? What's the state of app support (I assume not there presently, which is totally fair)

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a fork of piefed that's currently more feature advanced. If you scroll through the comments on this post somebody else posted more details about said features.

App support is identical to piefed, since the api is the same.

[–] nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

The main reason I've preferred to continue using lemmy is the user experience. Like when you hide a post or something it doesn't happen until you refresh. I guess because it uses htmx or something and the idea is to minimize JavaScript? Does pylova do anything different in that regard?