Getting banned from communities you don't even post on, Lemmy really is a full featured Reddit replacement.
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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:
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- 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.
Rules
- Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
- Don’t deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
- Don’t harass mods or brigade comms. Don’t word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
- You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
- If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.
- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
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.
Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
Relevant comms
Aha, but does Reddit have a YPTB to call out the PTBs? I thought not! Checkmate!
perhaps lemmy.ml is, but no one is forced go on that instance
.ml is there and available on the fediverse in the same way that warm and somewhat leaky packs of discount meat are there and available on the shelf.
PTB, it was probably because you keep triggering them in /c/leftymemes. Also lol at the hexbears in here calling YDI because their feelings are constantly being hurt.
EDIT: Omegalul at all the salt below.
There is no shame in having hurt feelings.
I gladly admit my feeling were hurt last year while me and my wife were receiving messages from her friend in the middle east, saying that one had no more parents, that one was now a window, that friends were dying.
And at the same time, I was reading the very same assholes whining 24/7 about tankies explaining everybody that the genocide was both unavoidable and a fatality anyway.
Funnily, the main mod of these anti-tankies is the guy that spread genocidal fake news during the mass killings.
Yes, that hurt my feelings.
Weird how they came in here suddenly.
B-but it was on all of our front pages! Ignore when we post it, link it, screenshot everyone, on our Slop community! Then talk about how much we hate them but don't do anything to stop getting angry about it on the same community!
Edit: it keeps happening, wow I'm so shocked.
Edit 2: on the front page of Slop, users from Hexbear commented and then went to the post being discussed https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/59235577?scrollToComments=true
"But we don't do that! Lemme just prove we do!"

Didn't come here from slop or any other comm, it's genuinely the top for me. Default settings, which are sorted by All & Active.
Considering we're not federated with .world, this is probably the most active thread on our federated spaces.
Edit: also there's quite a few .zip bots which would have artificially boosted the activity
oh yeah the .zip bot, I was surprised it somehow got through
Hello I got here from the front page and as you can see (if you’re timely):
https://hexbear.net/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=Active
This post is currently at 2nd place of our front page, discounting the pinned megathreads.
Now I have provided proof of our position, will you provide proof of yours?
Of course they won't prove their position; their irrational boiling hated is all the proof they need
This hasn't been posted to slop, you dishonest troll. As ever, you're just mad that communists are allowed to use the website built by communists
hexbears
literally just Alaskaball when you posted this comment, I'm commenting because of semantics lol
such a reputable and outstanding instance as Lemmy.ml
unban me so that I may continue to not post in their community
Wheeze... More! Do you do standup?
YDI - Why do you care if you're banned in a comm you never post in? The only reason to care is because you want to start drama.
You're an anti-communist and you got banned from a communist instance. Aren't you happy you're away from the tankies now? Proud you've proven their authoritarian nature?
YDI.
You've equated communists to Nazis and said "tankie fucks deserve to get their heads bashed in." Extremely aggressive 100% of the time whenever you encounter a Marxist of any sort. With that context, it isn't unreasonable to ban you when it would already be a clear misfit for you to participate in a Marxist community, be it via voting or otherwise. It wasn't an instance ban, you're still free to comment on the socialist comm, anarchist comm, etc as far as I can tell, just not on the communist comm.
As for the bit on antisemitism, the comment was removed and all you said was "fuck off," so myself and presumably others made rash assumptions. This isn't ill-founded though, you had posted Nazi apologia for Nazi collaborators released from prison that went on to lynch Jewish people and communists on the very same thread simply because they opposed the soviets. This is well and truly beyond the standard left-punching the post was for. I feel that this context is necessary because your post directly calls my reputation into question in the post body.
saying that you’re wrong and your grokepedia sources are bullshit is not nazi apologia.
people can disagree with the factual content of what you’re saying without being a nazi.
stupid tankie trolls.
PTB.
I am so sorry you've had to go through this awful experience. It is entirely unsurprising for that mod in particular. Extremely defensive 100% of the time whenever they encounter an Anarchist.
Thank you for your continued support, I am considering legal action to recover the monetary damages for how distressed I am by this unprovoked rageban.
That rule 4 probably refers to the instance wide rule 4, which seems to be "No Ads / Spamming."
Which is still weird because I've never made no posts or ads in the community.
lemmy.ml is operated by emotionally stunted clowns.
Be fair to clowns, they contribute meaningful social commentary.
Lemmy.ml admin Davel has been rage downvoting my posts a lot lately
the lack of effective blocking is what really kills Lemmy….
it’s like it was custom made for harassment and brigading.
Oh are we doing that shit now? banning someone from one community for activity in another is so Reddit.
YDI, every interaction I've had with you has been toxic, can't really blame anyone who bans you
Amazing display of left unity today by Hexbear.
We can't call out bad faith actions and active spamming to tire people out, but they will gladly jump down your throat.
They can ban people for asking too many questions but if we ban them we aren't leftists.
You call them out it's a tirade and a rant. You give them links to show they have a bias, you're the bad guy.
Rules for thee not for me is what Stalin wanted after all, it's just praxis for them. Can't wait to see how many are angry at us for not obeying their rules on another instance.
Blah blah "but muh all" blah blah "post hog" blah blah "you just hate us for causing a mess and cleaning it up". Hope you guys have jobs and interact with real humans and stop LARPing as the revolutionaries Stalin would have shot when they stopped being useful.
Amazing how to some we're the Tankies when we didn't say Stalin wasnt Christ reborn and we get spammed with it. I come back from work and I have more messages than when I upset someone with a bot farm.
Left unity my ass. We can't criticize you but you'll kill Makhno and say you did us a favor. Can't wait until Hexbear circlejerks about this and swear this time for real they'll defed from us.
Mate, you were literally making up actual straight up lies about hexbear: objectively, verifiably false accusations, and now you're throwing a fucking tantrum that people called you out



