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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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

when you're modding on piefed but you're a reddit mod at heart

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

I thought piefed was bad news when I first read their document on tools for upholding healthy communities where they defended the idea of a karma system. Skavau very adamantly defends it claiming it's not a Karma system while describing everything wrong with Reddit's Karma system as if it's somehow a good thing. I'm not really glad that I'm right, this situation is awful. I am glad though that more people are seeing it for what it is, and hopefully will stop endorsing piefed so openly.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm new around here and I must say you guys enjoy your drama.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the difference between Lemmy and reddit is banning everyone doesn't really mean anything.

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[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My piefed account wasn't loading. Now I wonder if I was blocked my I rarely have an opinion about anything to be banned at all

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

No the server is unreachable atm

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 day ago

Apparently urgent maintenance that needs at least a day to accommodate?

Wonder if they were hosting in the data center that caught fire a week or two ago and that requires downtime?

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/northc-data-center-outside-amsterdam-suffers-fire/

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Piefed as a software was always hipster pop. People gravitated towards it because it was new, it's not Lemmy and it tries to be everything. Some features are genuinely good and others aren't implemented in Lemmy for logical reasons. Anyway, point is, the people that create pop tend to be superficial and not want to rock any boats. It's unsurprising that he'd want to create a silo of confirmation bias. But I'm biased because I want my threadiverse experience to be full of people with differing opinions, stances and lifestyles.

That said, I also don't think brigading helps, even when they're baited. Inadvertently or not. Everyone's own mental health should remain the priority.

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

i think someone made the argument that it was insanely less demanding on servers though

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, if you've prevented the majority of the threadiverse interacting with your server, it'll of course be less demanding. 🥴

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

All sides of the fediverse agree unanimously that Rimu is a piece of shit.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not all, .world, lemmy.ca, feddit all agree that Rimu is actually the good guy and anyone who has proof is making it up. They even claim the harassment the queer people get is faked by the queers themselves, according to a few key Feddit users.

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

Then let's burn this mother fucker down.

POOKIE!

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lemmy.world and also lemmy.ca might be on his side unfortunately (their administration). They seemed to be on the same page when it came to the last drama involving Lemmy.world threating to defederate from FAF (dbzer0, Anarchist.nexus, and Quokk.au).

[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Being online via Lemmy caused me not one, but 2 mental collapses (I'm fine now, diagnosed with bipolar and have meds now) so I decided to give PieFed a shot, since I get bored on "fedi" (I hate that name for the Misskey forks). The promise of better features faster seemed amazing (politics of Lemmy devs aside). I've been around since the very first day of the Reddit API fiasco, and despite this 2 week-old account, I've been around the block. The age of this account is not coincidental. Thankfully, the FAF exposed Rimu's bullshit so I decided to start fresh yet again with the FAF (I'm already an anarchist, so why not?) due to this inexcusable drama stirring.

My biggest hope is that the AN fork of PieFed is deployed soon and properly maintained, because Rimu has changed from "dev making a new product with easy contributions" to "perhaps the biggest authoritarian threat to the threadiverse driven by sycophants" in a matter of weeks.

Rimu has banned some of the largest voices on the platform with this fell-swoop. This entire thing likely deserves its own static website in order to document what's going on, because people on the flagship PieFed instance are never likely to see it. I may do this just because this is worse more than many realize, I think. We collectively saw threads dot net happening and basically all of the threadiverse defederated due to obvious foreseeable issues.

This reminds me of that guy that was DM'ing people with a ban every time they used the word "bro" but on a much larger and more influential scale. We aren't talking about a mod (that was on piefed btw, I think he made his own instance) now, but an entire development effort that can deeply harm not only this platform, but the very idea of this platform as a whole.

In short,
FUCK RIMU

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bro, when do i get my ban?

[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 14 points 2 days ago

Ditto. I don't want to say things about my past here, because I was really bad at times. But. for my first instance ban ever, I want to earn a ban.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the people i recognize on the list are anarchists

y0kai, unruffled, db0, stamets, quokka

what is happening here

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@rimu@piefed.social seems to going on a crusade against anyone who calls him out on his atrocious behavior. Either that or he just hates anarchists.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To clarify, a bunch of Marxists are on this list too. Rimu is on a crusade against Marxists and anarchists, essentially anyone calling Rimu and Piefed out.

He probably hates leftists in general.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Based on the whole vibe of Piefed loudly announcing itself by coming on the scene and saying "We are like Lemmy but without all those shitty TANKIES so you can feel safe" as if that was a primary issue makes me Zero percent surprised by this development.

I am not saying you have to agree with the politics of the Lemmy devs, rather it is the shallowness of the Piefed brand as "the fediverse but more centrist/rightwing and without those SUPER ANNOYING TANKIES" that should have given everyone more pause before they jumped on the bandwagon even if you have had bad experiences in authoritarian "left" spaces and were legitimately seeking that experience.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

as if that was a primary issue

For some it is.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 day ago

One of the piefed mods says they totally want to help resolve that. Wait no sorry they want to resolve why everyone is upset without changing anything

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Aspis@lemy.lol 46 points 3 days 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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[–] TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I stopped looking for maybe an hour? And now I'm seeing several posts about mass bannings, some peoole talkig abojt someone who is anti-anarchist/anti-marxist, some problem with the Lemmy devs... and I don't know what's going on at all lol

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