this post was submitted on 16 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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  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

Snoopy

  1. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Community ban

  1. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don't de-obfuscate mod names).

  1. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/ comment that was removed, or got you banned).

I woke up to suddenly being banned with a dm that was misgendering me. It appears the real reason I was banned was due to fact I was critical of Piefed's recent actions.

Snoopy has no evidence that “I personally released the exploits into the wild" It was actually @yogthos@lemmy.ml who did the deed. I'm not technically enough to be pull it off, nor do I want to.

  1. Explain why you think it’s unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Hopefully unbanned and unblocked.

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[–] Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'm shocked they haven't just jumped to defederation already, considering they're okay with just nonstop lying and mass bans from personal hit lists. May as well just bite this weird bullet.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if they know it'd trigger a mass exodus from piefed. While they have many solid communities, the vast majority of their users are there also for federation with communities on world and db0. Defederating them would probably cause uproar when even there I'm sure most of their users see it as a personal spat.

Its why rimu only blocked db0 instead of full on defederating, which even I told rimu directly defederate if he disliked db0s admin policies so much. The fact that he hasn't I think shows that they know it's not as bad as they keep trying to claim.

There are actual hate and horrifying instances that us admins insta-defederated from. They're trying to put regular admins on the same level, but not defederating proves that it's all in their heads.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, instances should just start defederating them at this point. There's a ton of harassment from them and they clearly don't act in good faith.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I honestly didn't think there would be worse mods than those on world but these last few weeks have certainly proven me wrong

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Indeed, the whole project, and everyone associated with it, feels deeply malicious.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

deeply malicious

That’s rich coming from the person who publicly posted potential exploits and put thousands of users at risk.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

Given that it took all of five minutes to find those exploits, those users were already at risk. I didn't reveal any information that anyone couldn't get by cloning the repo and throwing an LLM at it.