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.

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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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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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 100 points 3 months ago (15 children)

When you aren't popular enough to make the list :(

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 38 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I'm out here posting commie shit every day and getting into fights about it. But occasionally I take a peek at MoG and I've never seen my name there, it's always just Cowbee this and Cowbee that. Now I don't even make the blocklist.

What am I, chopped liver?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I do think it's funny just how much vitriol I seem to get, and I mostly stick to Lemmy.ml anyways.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Same, I mean c'mon I was clearly popular enough to get a .world instance ban but not enough for piefed.social 3:

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 months ago (6 children)

It's possible he'll add more people from threads in YPTB. He's insecure like that, he probably stalks our instance to see if we're saying bad things about him.

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[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The only thing I've ever said to him was pushing back against his criticism with screenshots of evidence that proved him wrong.

He is not removing people for a coordinated harassment campaign. He is removing people to silence dissent and exert a stranglehold on his platform and his own ego.

PTB is, quite literally, not strong enough. He is an active danger to the entire fediverse as a whole. He is dragging down credibility of any instance that runs Piefed and has proven that not only is he a manchild incapable of regulating his own emotions and ego.

Piefed has become Chernobyl levels of radioactive. You can keep running a Piefed instance but you better expect questions on why you're helping to further this narcissistic psychopaths control and influence.

It's also kind of strange that Iso@lemy.lol is on that list. They're a former admin of lemy.lol who had beef with Rimu but Rimu defederated from lemy.lol a while ago over their logo. The fact that he's banning that user in amongst all the others kind of proves that this is a personal hitlist and not harassment. Otherwise, why are you banning a user that you've defederated from?

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 3 months ago (4 children)

@Rimu@piefed.social has completely destroyed his reputation by this point, and likely has thoroughly destroyed public perception of piefed. He is continuing to prove he is exactly the threat people have said the Lemmy devs will be.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 40 points 3 months ago

@Rimu@piefed.social has completely destroyed his reputation

well, everywhere except his own spaces, because he's carefully curated those to only be filled with sycophantic losers.

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 64 points 3 months ago (22 children)
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 3 months ago

"Waah waaaah, the modlogs are unfair becuase they can be used to libel innocent people, I'll even patch my software so my server hides nasty things people say about me"

A few moments later...

"Harasser, Harasser, all of you are harassers! None of you is free of sin!"

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 45 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Offering to talk to resolve his grievances and apologising for any unintended offence is now harassment? :bc_rollingeyes:

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 43 points 3 months ago (7 children)

“Orchestrated a coordinated harassment campaign.” That’s quite a claim; where’s the evidence?

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 months ago

The only thing I ever did was post screenshots of his own statements and evidence that he was either actively lying or being a confused old man.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Their response would probably involve a combination of deflecting, discrediting you, attacking you, and doubling down on their warped perceived reality.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 months ago
[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's difficult enough to get 20+ people to agree on anything. Like what toppings on a pizza order. Much less a targeted smear campaign.

[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

and lemmy.ml people and dbzer0 people getting together? for a harassment campaign? I challenge you to make them agree.

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[–] ea6927d8@lemmy.ml 51 points 3 months ago (7 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 (8 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.

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[–] Aspis@lemy.lol 49 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Hi. Admin of lemy.lol here who is also on that list.

I have made 5 comments in total and have not commented in the matrix channels. I have also made a single comment about Rimu. This.

Rimu is incapable of handling basic criticism. If an admin is such a threat that a single comment about him constitutes a 'coordinated harassment campaign', then Rimu and Piefed.social must be defederated en masse. We at lemy.lol would do so if he didn't defederate from us over his perception of a frog.

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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 46 points 3 months ago (6 children)

This confirms everything I said about piefed months ago. I even made a piefed account and brought up concerns, only to be told the "anti-tankie" controls were for everyone's own good.

Sucks to suck.

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[–] maam@feddit.uk 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

PTB, he banned me for screenshotting the public group chat.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 3 months ago

That’s understandable, the truth is his enemy.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Soooo hes killed piefed with consistently idiotic behaviour. (I'm being kind here)

Hopefully the fork takes off and saves the project.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 43 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)

Rimu's also banned people who never interact with Piefed.social like myself simply if people like PugJesus make harassment posts about them (which feddit.org and blahaj.zone followed through with too). This is more blatant as it's even less targeted and includes people I've never seen break any rules, like Edie.

From MeanwhileOnGrad, against me:

ableism, misgendering

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol, you're like one of the chillest and least unhinged posters on fedi.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 months ago

Thanks! I try to be more chill, people being at each other's throats isn't very productive for learning so I try to balance it out. It does go to show that those opposed to leftists will despise you no matter how you treat them or others if you're consistent.

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[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"these people don't hide that they don't like me and since I have a tiny iota of power I'm gonna ban them! Grr I'm angy! >:[ see it has an actual reason, I'm not whining! "

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Careful, he'll ban you too.

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

what's with this desperate cry for attention from him lately? why can't he just go back to being the person nobody fucking remembers until he breaks something in Piefed again?

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 41 points 3 months ago (16 children)
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[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I would like to know what I did that constitutes harassment. I'm pretty sure I just got banned for being in the threads.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 months ago

I think most people in that list have the same question. This is a clear "If you're not with me, you're against me" move.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

my shitposting game has been weak lately. disappointed in myself for not making it into the list.

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[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Extreme PTB. This is bad, especially after seeing how rimu tried to malign dbzer0 recently. Very ban-happy behaviour from the piefed admin.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 months ago

Alas, yes, PTB.

While any given instance can freely ban people for whatever reason, making reasons up is always gone to be PTB.

If they'd just said they didn't like the people and didn't want them around? Shitty, but only PTB on a technicality, in that that's something an admin shouldn't use as criteria. Yeah, I know that seems fucking weird, but there is a degree of personal choice when running an instance. Nobody has to let in people they don't like. On a small instance, it wouldn't matter.

But on that instance, it matters. If you're going to play the heavy on a flagship instance, you've got a higher standard to meet. If that's not in your capabilities, you shouldn't be running a main instance. Foist that work off to someone temperamentally inclined to not screw the pooch. But if you're going to be pulling that kind of thing, be honest. Don't make up bullshit reasons, it destroys your credibility and shows that you are, indeed, in it for the power fantasy to some degree or another.

Say what you want about the names on that list as members of the fediverse at large, but half of those names are well known to not abuse power, and the more recognizable ones sure as hell aren't organizing any harassment. Even if only because they're recognizable. They'd be smart enough to create a random account unconnected to their main ones.

So, yeah, PTB and full of malarkey

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Well his claim of stepping away from public interactions latest as long as expected

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[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 32 points 3 months ago

Shame on Rimu. They clearly shouldn't be in any position of authority.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 months ago (83 children)

Remind me again why y’all have piefed instances?

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think it was largely people reactively hating on the Lemmy devs. People were claiming Lemmy's developers would push opinionated changes to the codebase and ruin Lemmy. Funny and ironic that this problem happened to piefed instead, and @rimu@piefed.social was the one we needed to worry about in the first place.

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[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I don't know. But it's gotten to the point that I don't trust any piefed instances anymore at all. Rimu pushed a piece of code into Piefed a few days ago specifically to silence criticism against him and to silently delete/block posts on Piefed. He is exerting such an extreme amount of control onto the entire platform itself that I cannot trust the platform itself.

Every piefed instance, as far as I'm concerned at this point, comes with an enormous asterisk.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh my god the lolcowery continues.

This is just embarassing.

... See this is where it becomes highly obvious that if you sent this person like a physical, 'Power Tripping Bastard' award, a 3d printed statuette or medallion or something, they'd just continue to lose their shit in a more extreme way.

Like in a roundabout way... dude literally needs help, and I feel bad for him. Very much needs to touch grass for a couple of months, take a vacation from the internet, get those cortisol levels back to reasonable.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 months ago

Rimu is the creator of piefed? Glad I never switched, then! The Lemmy devs are certainly problematic in their own way, but piefed seems particularly heavy-handed in its censorship and banning.

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