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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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Banned and Scapegoated for Piefed exploits (piefed.ca)
submitted 4 hours ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

Snoopy

  1. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Community ban

  1. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don't de-obfuscate mod names).

  1. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/ comment that was removed, or got you banned).

I woke up to suddenly being banned with a dm that was misgendering me. It appears the real reason I was banned was due to fact I was critical of Piefed's recent actions.

Snoopy has no evidence that “I personally released the exploits into the wild" It was actually @yogthos@lemmy.ml who did the deed. I'm not technically enough to be pull it off, nor do I want to.

  1. Explain why you think it’s unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Hopefully unbanned and unblocked.

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[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 hours ago

This is extra fantastic as snoopy keeps calming it's all over and it's time to make up, while they or rimu again kick those who bring up issues or concerns.

And a massive red flag to fucking ban/retaliate against those who discover and disclose vulnerabilities.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I don't understand the piefed.Social people at all. Are they just making up reality as they go along?

[–] Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'm shocked they haven't just jumped to defederation already, considering they're okay with just nonstop lying and mass bans from personal hit lists. May as well just bite this weird bullet.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I wonder if they know it'd trigger a mass exodus from piefed. While they have many solid communities, the vast majority of their users are there also for federation with communities on world and db0. Defederating them would probably cause uproar when even there I'm sure most of their users see it as a personal spat.

Its why rimu only blocked db0 instead of full on defederating, which even I told rimu directly defederate if he disliked db0s admin policies so much. The fact that he hasn't I think shows that they know it's not as bad as they keep trying to claim.

There are actual hate and horrifying instances that us admins insta-defederated from. They're trying to put regular admins on the same level, but not defederating proves that it's all in their heads.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)

Honestly, instances should just start defederating them at this point. There's a ton of harassment from them and they clearly don't act in good faith.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 1 points 12 minutes ago

I honestly didn't think there would be worse mods than those on world but these last few weeks have certainly proven me wrong

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I think they really believe the "orchestrated harrassment" bit and everything bad against them is done as part of a conspiracy to kill piefed because... tankies hate us for our freedoms or something

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 hours ago

While also being the biggest harrasing users.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Rimu is a campist, and in his mind everyone not in his camp is the same. He has 'stopped the drama' only to enlist others to fight it for him.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 hour ago

I swear I don't love the drama, it loves me!

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

@yogthos@lemmy.ml didn’t release exploits into the wild. He publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, which could be used to create exploits. We removed the post at the request of the developer, and he has since released a security update.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability_(computer_security)#Disclosure

Someone who discovers a vulnerability may disclose it immediately (full disclosure) or wait until a patch has been developed (responsible disclosure, or coordinated disclosure). The former approach is praised for its transparency, but the drawback is that the risk of attack is likely to be increased after disclosure with no patch available.

Yogthos has made a follow-up post: PSA: open source security considerations in the era of LLMs

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

The discussion is full disclosure vs responsible disclosure. I think almost everyone who is familiar with the situation agrees that:

  • yogthos didn't create the vulnerability
  • the vulnerability should be patched, and the public needed to be made aware of them

I don't see why full disclosure is still being suggested as having been the right call in this case. A patch would have come out just as fast with a responsible disclosure, and there was nothing that users of Lemmy or Piefed could do by becoming aware of it right away. Meanwhile the full disclosure harms regular users, instance operators, and developers alike. I think it would ALSO be bad if someone did this to the Lemmy developers, or any other project.

Responsible disclosure would have meant

  • contact the developer and wait a reasonable time for a patch
  • contact instance operators to let them know that they may want to take steps before the patch is out

Even if we assume that malicious entities are actively exploiting the vulnerability, which is an assumption and not confirmed, publicly promoting it only makes the problem worse and doesn't speed up any resolution.

I understand that there is also tension between Yogthos and Rimu. I think Yogthos would have come out of this looking a lot better if they went with responsible disclosure

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I don’t see why full disclosure is still being suggested as having been the right call in this case.

I don’t think it was the right call and said so in the removed post.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago)

I see, I misunderstood the earlier comment and I'll edit accordingly

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 hours ago

The key part everybody needs to understand here is that finding these vulnerabilities took mere minutes of my time. This is anybody with access to an LLM can do trivially, so the information I provided is not in any way valuable. If somebody wanted to attack piefed maliciously, they could find these same exploits just as easily as I did. Open source developers really have to start thinking about this new reality.

[–] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 hours ago

Piefed users once again proving they have no actual problem with reddit, they were just slightly inconvenienced once and felt the need to invade every alternative.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Obvious PTB, not much of a surprise considering they mod on Piefed(.social) though

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That’s not all!

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

FINALLY. I've been questioning the ideology behind piefed for months.

Except this is absolutely because I disagreed with them in the last YPTB piefed post. I wasn't even a dick about it.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

PTB, the misgendering is gross too.

regardless of how shitty the piefed crew has been behaving lately, releasing the security vulnerability as yogthos did was an asshole move and is something i disavow.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Since all yogthos did was using an LLM to find the vulnerability, and anyone can do that without any prior knowledge, today there's not much speaking for limited disclosure in open source software for anything that can be found with automated checks(and I'd argue that a quick check for security issues should be done proactively). This has changed quickly, but it defacto the new standard.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

i'm showing my age being unaware then! piefed getting unexpected downtime due to an llm-identified vulnerability has been a bit of an ironic twist after there was just that fearmongering post from rimu about db0 'moderating with llm'

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Yeah that was a real dick thing to do.

[–] Snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.fr -2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (4 children)

Firstly, i want to deeply apologize for the misgendering, i saw a post on linux mobile and you stopped to publish thing because of your fatherhood. 😔

Let's go back to the ban. YEEEEEEESSSSS, YPB, definitely ! Awesome ! Clap clap Snoopy ! You got a golden medale ! Best moderator of the year ! 🥳🎇🎆

What are you doing ?!

I was waiting for you. Let's start and sink my reputation deeper, so i can also add you in my blocklist.

True. Sunshine, you didn't take part in Piefed exploit. True, Rimu was wrong and overeacted like myself right now. But some part were also right.

We utterly failed to listen each other that in the end of the year we will be part of the unfediverse ! A fediverse that federate with no one. We worked so hard to escape Big Tech and build together amazing tool and they won't work properly because everyone has issue with everyone.

The exposure of Piefed vulnerability is indirectly related to this conflict. Aren't you part of this conflict just like me right now with those little ban ? With those little comment that undermine our relationship and trust ? With those post ? Sunshine shared the ban list, her bio is great. You also banned people. So...what ?

I don't see the point of continuing together and seeing you again. But i really enjoyed those moment when you talked about your country, it was peaceful. I got good memories.

Right now, i'm mad at you all.

They did this, they did that, look what they did, they are lying !...and BAAAAM !

Someone decided to expose vulnerabilities publicitly without informing lead devs. In some kind of revenge. Great ! Awesome ! Amazing !

I would react the exact same way if you do the same thing to Lemmy without informing lead dev. You should be mad too ! Our friends were at risk and i'm not even talking about my own circle ! It endangered your friends. Numtonic deleted the post and understood the gravity. Thank a lot to him.

Was it worth ?! What are you doing !? It stirred the fire sooo much that it skyrocketed to this point ! What will be next thing ?

We call it a community, the fediverse (federation universe). Honnestly, it's better to nuke it and do a forum on an isle with just three people. Let's destroy the whole project. Would you really enjoy this ?

So, I decided to take action. A bad one.

It endangered lot more users from the fediverse : quokk.au, piefed.zip, tarte, feddit.online...put part of the fediverse offline. It is the kind of experience i promoted to Reddit users ? To IRL people ?

I do meeting where i present the fediverse. Fuck, they will run ! Do you really want to continue this shitty show ? The people i know will move to Mastodon. It will be completly crazy to invite them here. I show this to my sister, she will never create an account here whatever is the threadiverse software.

It mades me very furious because we poured lot effort. So right now, i feel calm.

If you want to continue this shitty show, please :

  • push the unsubcribe button asap from my communities.
  • ban me
  • unlist my communities and silence/defed my instances.

What are you waiting for? There are better communities than mine and you can animate them yourself. You won't lose anything, me neither.

You can also join the promising piefed fork. !pylova@quokk.au

Thank you. Right now, i'm unbanning them.

Edit: typo.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 7 points 1 hour ago

I just shared the linux phone blog post, it does not mean that I wrote it myself.

You’re taking this way too personal mate. There wouldn’t be so much drama if Rimu and yourself have not banned people who disagreed with you. Dragging the folks from anarchist.nexus and quokk.au through the mud was too far. Have you heard of the Streisand effect?

My public statements about Piefed does not make me responsible in any shape or form of the exploits. I don’t like hundreds of people’s info being exposed either.

It’s too bad I’m on your block list for being a whistle blower. It was a nice conversing with you.

I have deleted my tarte.nuage-libre.fr account.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 2 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

Putting this here because it's obvious it either wasn't read or ignored so it's for others. Can't add the comment that triggered this either as it got replaced by simply test but this comment still echos the previous one so sadly still entirely relevant.

And why i'm writting to you ? My purpose is ending this fedidrama

So again the point is the continuation of one sided attacks from the top. Even this reply is filled with nothing but condescending well he sure is sorry if you can all ignore his actions language.

Nothing you or rimu or others on the piefed staff have said feel at all genuine to me or others.

Until that changes 🤷.

My sole purpose here is ending this fedidrama that lastest since last April. Then later, we will work on a closure so we can close wound and heal.

Again simply saying just get over it is a terrible way to do that.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 minutes ago (1 children)

but condescending well he sure is sorry if you can all ignore his actions language.

The ban was reversed: https://piefed.social/modlog?communities=3225

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 2 points 13 minutes ago

Cool. Changes absolutely nothing but glad they realized something was done wrongly

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I don't understand your logic mate, you put everyone critical of the piefed.social team in the same camp and assigning direct responsibility for anything anyone critical of piefed.social (or piefed itself) does, to all in that camp. It doesn't work that way. People are responsible for their own actions. Yogthos actions do not represent Sunshine. Sunshine's actions do not represent myself, and so on.

As far as "killing the threadiverse" is concerned, all you got to do to stop this is...stop escalating. The more you ban people, especially on flimsy or faulty reasoning, the more they're going to want to talk about it, especially since piefed.social presented itself as an alternative "neutral" instance, making a lot of people migrate their communities and accounts there, and is now taking radical actions disconnecting people from their communities, based on nothing more than vibes.

I can't believe that every day I have to see a new drama thread about piefed or rimu or piefed.social. I can honestly say I've never seen such a level of crash-out before. Do you not see how this works? The more you push people, the more they'll push back.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 1 hour ago

So you agree it hurt us too, and you’re mad at us for it? Do you think we are responsible for what some tankie did?

What have we done here to deserve to be blamed for this?

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online -1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

PTB but it also you in particular share responsibility because you are a shitty person who seeks out drama like this and then promotes it to make it about yourself. You attack people who think you are a friend and manipulate people and communities. Go to therapy.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

You raise a lot of assertions about Sunshine, but I'm going to need some more info. Without context, it sounds hysterical.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They are the reason I shut down vegantheoryclub.org. When I asked for a vote to de federate sh.itjust.works they used alts to post about me on anti-tankie communities then used and army of alts to manipulate the votes on my instance. Afterwords they followed me around and screenshotted my posts to mock me on the anti-tankie forums for a while until I shut it down. This was all after pretending to be my friend in matrix for a while. They insert themselves into this kind of drama a lot, and they know it, so my message is for them. I don't care what you think about me.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 1 points 26 minutes ago (2 children)

You need to provide citations for your claims otherwise this is just an anecdote.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 minutes ago

I wouldn’t take the bait if I were you, @hamid@crazypeople.online, because she’s very good at this game. Whatever this game is—being an energy vampire?

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml -1 points 19 minutes ago (1 children)

why are you responding with an alt under your own post?

[–] maam@feddit.uk 1 points 18 minutes ago (1 children)

Because I have piefed.world blocked. You can see my main in my bio.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 minutes ago (1 children)

no reply in this comment chain is from piefed.world

[–] maam@feddit.uk 1 points 2 minutes ago

I want to see the other chain too.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world -3 points 1 hour ago

It sounds hysterical because it is hysterical.