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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.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


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[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)

.world sucks ass, it's a reddit clone

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

There are a few news related subs on .world with shitty moderators, the rest of the instance is as chill as anywhere else. If you see .world mentioned here, it is probably the News community.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol says the "reddthat" user. Actually it's a good instance name, but the irony ...

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Reddthat disables downvotes, so quite different from Reddit

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Is it? There are plenty of subreddits who have taken downvotes out of their community. Badly, but they have. /r/CanadaPolitics will outright ban you if you ever admit to downvoting something in the community.

The removal of downvotes alone is not remotely sufficient evidence of being "quite different" from Reddit in that regard. Honestly it just reminds me of /r/Conservative and their flair system too. I don't understand why downvotes are being banished.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Downvotes are still possible on Reddit, even if their impact is limited.

Reddthat doesn't even have the button anymore

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Which is a relatively minor mechanical difference.

Doesnt matter the instance. They're all reddit like

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

Let's agree to disagree! 😄

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

What a bunch of snowflakes.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reddit basically removed downvotes as well since the EA comment. You still had the button, but it was inable to change the trend of the first few minutes.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago

I still regularly get downvoted on /r/RedditAlternatives, so it still seems to work

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wish i could find a better instance. :c

You can. This community is on a good instance.

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...have you expended the slightest bit of effort to do that? Because there are plenty.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I've researched a few dozen.

Every time I dig deep there's something unreconcialable I find in usually the community or the admins' unfair moderation practices. Or it's really small and weird and I don't understand what it's about.

.world is cringe and corporate feeling, like reddit, but the admins are more consistent than the smaller communities I've tried.

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 16 hours ago

that's fair. I like sdf.org but I would, I chose it.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Sopuli.xyz might be a good option.

They are a medium sized general purpose instance based in Finland with good admins, a consistently updated Lemmy, and fast speeds.

Also @shadowplayer2@lemmy.world and @HalifaxJones@lemmy.world

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'll check it out, thanks

Any controversies I should know about?

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 20 hours ago

None that I'm aware of :D

Also just want to mention you can export your subscriptions, blocks, and saved posts/comments as a JSON file from your account settings page, and then import that file at your new instance in the same spot!

[–] shadowplayer2@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Please update here if you find one! The draw of lemmy (and fediverse in general) should be that if something like this happens we aren’t beholden to the instance and can switch, but unfortunately I share your experience with other instances 😔

[–] HalifaxJones@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Im in the same boat :/