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.

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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.

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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[–] ea6927d8@lemmy.ml 51 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Those users are probably going to end up in a banned list hardcoded in the program.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Well, he already admitted that guardrails should have been put up on lemmy to prevent memes from taking root. So why not put up guardrails for users he doesn't like?

Oh wait.

He did.

He made an anti-cm0002 filter.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm sorry but genuienly, the last time I saw this kind of behavior was like, two decades ago, Garrys Mod RP communities SteamID banning people from other RP communties in their game mode scripts.

This is just literally petulant child behavior.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago

an anti-cm0002 filter

Critical support

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He made an anti-cm0002 filter.

That's a surprise. Figured he'd add features for them to help his crusade against ml.

Or they just posted too many memes?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

Anti-cm0002 filter means that you can't filter cm0002 when on piefed. Going by the logic.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He made an anti-cm0002 filter.

extremely rare absolute W for Rimu

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No. It isn't. Because adding in a filter for a single user is extremely fucking problematic and should be left up to admins to ban or users to block.

I'm sure admins aren't going to be thrilled about Rimu using his power to ban users on their server without their consent.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

As much as I hate memes, trying to prevent them is dumb.

Which is funny because people have said Lemmy's devs would do the same thing in regards to putting stuff into Lemmy. It's also stupid because anyone who cares can make a new account with a different username on another server, or on their same server to bypass that.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wish I could be added to a piefed hard coded ban list :3

[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There's a good chance they're going to see this post and prepare a second list, all the best!

[–] Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago

Honestly that's why I'm replying to this. I feel like it'll be a badge of honor to get added to Rimu's hardcoded ban list.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 6 points 3 months ago

I will personally find it funny if that happened, so that I get to pump up my codeberg numbers with pylova and pievolution code to just remove the list

(Does codeberg even have that sort of activity stuff? I mostly live on my personally hosted repos at this point, I just think it would be funny)

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Not gonna lie, I'm pretty sure at least 2 of those names have been featured on PTB before.

This place if rife with powermods.