Sorry but this is out of scope for this community. Also y'all can't behave. Reminder that the burden of proof is on the accuser. You can't prove a negative (i.e. "prove such-and-such isn't Universal Monk")
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
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.
YTPB 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.
Relevant comms
Just a reminder to this individual.
You have to make dozens of clone accounts to make it appear as though your opinion is agreed with.
We don't. Nice cope.
Sometimes when I feel like a failure or I’m not applying myself enough in life, then I read shit like this and realize I’m doing just fine .
Considering we're not anything like the users who spin bots to harass people, we're probably doing pretty okay. I'm weird but I'm not that weird.
It's kind of funny that he thinks people don't know that he's a reactionary wet fart. Anyone who watches the stupid side of the threadiverse with any kind of regularity can see the pattern.
He thinks he's being subtle, but Lemmy smells out right-wing bullshit better than most places on the Web. Nobody likes what he's selling.
He's after a captive audience because we know better. He thinks his ideas, or maybe just his chaos, is more acceptable when said by somebody that isn't him but NOBODY is buying his anti-Luigi comments.
Yeah, this place isn't Reddit; there's not a culture of ironic fascism to hide behind on Lemmy/ Piefed.
It's part of why I like it here.
It’s that no-lifer, UniversalMonk. How do people not know this? That dude threatened me in PM. It’s what got him banned among other things.
seems like he has shown up in this thread, and apparently some other accounts are defending him, its probally all him to.
I bet this person has dozens of friends whom they hang out with on a regular basis, a successful career, active sex life with a loving partner and proud parents.
This person is definitely not some self isolating weirdo that beats off to anime 4-8 times a day on a light week.
Hey hey now don't insult people that beat off to anime 8 times a day like that
Obligatory fuck UniversalMonk and his stupid AI character in each of his accounts' pfp. Dude is easily the worst parts of the fediverse wrapped up in a shit bow. Just block lemmy.today its a fascist instance. Same with the lemmyusa.today one or whatever.
The bigger problem here is that lemmy.today is being used as a gateway for astroturfing. That's the issue that needs fixing here.
Isn't the point of the federation to enable defederating rogue instances, or am I wrong on that?
Hot take: this is why automatic federation is a bad idea. Even if your malicious instance gets defederated, you can just spin up a new one!
I imagine eventually automatic federation will stop being a thing for a lot of instances.
I never liked the idea of blocking. Shoving my fingers in my ears and singing "la la la" allows these antics to continue unchallenged. Besides, they're not all on one instance.
I wonder what Russia would be like if the majority of them actually gave a fuck about their current living standards instead of just being fucking loser trolls obsessed with America
Reminds me of a post I read from a Russian tourist that visited Warsaw who was pissed off that the city was so nice and clean, whereas most of Russia is an unkempt shitheap.
Mind you he was not mad that Russia was a shitheap, he was mad that _Poland was not _
Least xenophobic liberal, folks.

I tagged a couple more a while back that I thought might be him.
PhilipsHurtFeelings and WilliamFBuckley are on my short list too. I have my suspicions about barrygoldwater, his trans best friend. Any account that has ever posted in a greenparty comm or there's a third_party one out there now too he's started.
BarryGoldwater is 100%. If I remember correctly DJM and Barry accounts were created at the same time. Like minutes apart with same shitty AI avatar and everything.
I'd just like to add that piefed.social, Rimu has already banned a lot of these accounts.
You can usually tell them because they all have similarly styled AI generated avatars and some random libertarian quote in their bio.
"Why are you mad at me? I didn't write the article." or talking about Lemmy as if we're all one big 70-IQ liberal or posting 90% in communities he mods. He's not good at it, but it's happening nonetheless.
Damn he really sat down and wrote all that
Him, grok, it's hard to tell. But it's his actions that speak the loudest.
I'm pretty sure Grok can spell, "hiring."
Intentionally mispelling things to 'prove' that you're human is a common enough meme that it would be in the AI training material of any LLM that is destined to be an Internet troll bot.
ahhh that makes sense. the most upsetting thing to me is how much of his own time he’s wasting. like literally everyone who sees his stuff immediately clocks him as either playing a character, or too stupid to interact with.
just a sad, sad person.
I mean, the глупый isn't wrong about the tactics.
Perhaps our comrade here got a bit too drunk and violated opsec and is now on his way to meet a Ukrainian drone like the rest of his recently deceased countrymen.
He has a ~~pension~~ penchant for creating accounts mocking people that troll him such as QuantumTickle, pooperNickel, PapaSkwat, DarkDecay, and probably others. Sometimes he steals their name, sometimes he is almost original.
I posted about this a month or so ago. I only uncovered PapaSkwat at the time. DJM was supposedly targeted by a downvote botnet months ago and he suspected a !PapaSkwat@lemy.lol, but considering how he's letting a user with that name post in his comms I'm willing to bet that DonaldJMusk did it to himself to garner pity.
Well, he certainly has my pity.
Full transcript of message:
The downvotes don't mean anything anyway, cuz the articles are still right there in community, comrade aaron
Don't worry, im not celebrating that a special team now has 300 different names on here on lemmy. no not me. I wouldnever celebrate such a psyops. i wouldnt be part of that,yes?
isnt that great? 30 people. just 10 names each. now 300 accounts. all acting liberal getting liberal respect. Then slowly surely changing minds as we bring out flaws of liberal .
And they r hiri8ng more. pay very good for here.
Not that I have anything to do w that.but it is so funny how its all happening under Lemmys eyes and no one can stop it.
news articles here and there. they seem liberal or neutral. then little by little they change. no one even notice.
All happengin and no one even knows.
not that i havetowrry since i have nothing to do with that.
No, not me. Just little old me here in my corner being ban happy. no bother to anyone. no cares here.
i would never lead a a team of 30 people to creat 300 accounts just to change minds of pity americans.
dont worry comrade aaron about me. I am just being quiet and ban happy here in my little corner.
dont worry because i woudl never have teams of peole not getting banned in all the other communities. some that you have argue about, but they keep us there.
they are not getitn banned anywhere. they are playing verygood game of tricking lemmy.
But not me. not little oldme, aaron.
you have never ever gotten rid of me and you never will. isnt that good news,comrade aaron?
lemmy is in land of free so no law broken just becuae ur mad. isn't that funny? differning opinions are good, yes?
будь здоров aaron. no need to worry about me little old me in my quiet corner no bother
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Yeah I downvoted several of his more daring lies and now he follows me around everywhere under the PapaSkwat name.
He calls you Aaron, too, huh?
He messaged me like he knew me. I think he tells himself that he only has 1 person downvoting his stuff. Maybe there was an Aaron in the past? I don't really care, I just want him to fuck off.