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.
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- 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).
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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.
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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.
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Firstly, i want to deeply apologize for the misgendering, i saw a post on linux mobile and you stopped to publish thing because of your fatherhood. 😔
Let's go back to the ban. YEEEEEEESSSSS, YPB, definitely ! Awesome ! Clap clap Snoopy ! You got a golden medale ! Best moderator of the year ! 🥳🎇🎆
What are you doing ?!
I was waiting for you. Let's start and sink my reputation deeper, so i can also add you in my blocklist.
True. Sunshine, you didn't take part in Piefed exploit. True, Rimu was wrong and overeacted like myself right now. But some part were also right.
We utterly failed to listen each other that in the end of the year we will be part of the unfediverse ! A fediverse that federate with no one. We worked so hard to escape Big Tech and build together amazing tool and they won't work properly because everyone has issue with everyone.
The exposure of Piefed vulnerability is indirectly related to this conflict. Aren't you part of this conflict just like me right now with those little ban ? With those little comment that undermine our relationship and trust ? With those post ? Sunshine shared the ban list, her bio is great. You also banned people. So...what ?
I don't see the point of continuing together and seeing you again. But i really enjoyed those moment when you talked about your country, it was peaceful. I got good memories.
Right now, i'm mad at you all.
They did this, they did that, look what they did, they are lying !...and BAAAAM !
Someone decided to expose vulnerabilities publicitly without informing lead devs. In some kind of revenge. Great ! Awesome ! Amazing !
I would react the exact same way if you do the same thing to Lemmy without informing lead dev. You should be mad too ! Our friends were at risk and i'm not even talking about my own circle ! It endangered your friends. Numtonic deleted the post and understood the gravity. Thank a lot to him.
Was it worth ?! What are you doing !? It stirred the fire sooo much that it skyrocketed to this point ! What will be next thing ?
We call it a community, the fediverse (federation universe). Honnestly, it's better to nuke it and do a forum on an isle with just three people. Let's destroy the whole project. Would you really enjoy this ?
So, I decided to take action. A bad one.
It endangered lot more users from the fediverse : quokk.au, piefed.zip, tarte, feddit.online...put part of the fediverse offline. It is the kind of experience i promoted to Reddit users ? To IRL people ?
I do meeting where i present the fediverse. Fuck, they will run ! Do you really want to continue this shitty show ? The people i know will move to Mastodon. It will be completly crazy to invite them here. I show this to my sister, she will never create an account here whatever is the threadiverse software.
It mades me very furious because we poured lot effort. So right now, i feel calm.
If you want to continue this shitty show, please :
What are you waiting for? There are better communities than mine and you can animate them yourself. You won't lose anything, me neither.
You can also join the promising piefed fork. !pylova@quokk.au
Thank you. Right now, i'm unbanning them.
Edit: typo.
Act like an adult and people will treat you like one.
How old are you?
Old enough to know better? Actually idk what age is considered legal on that instance or piefed.social
I don't understand your logic mate, you put everyone critical of the piefed.social team in the same camp and assigning direct responsibility for anything anyone critical of piefed.social (or piefed itself) does, to all in that camp. It doesn't work that way. People are responsible for their own actions. Yogthos actions do not represent Sunshine. Sunshine's actions do not represent myself, and so on.
As far as "killing the threadiverse" is concerned, all you got to do to stop this is...stop escalating. The more you ban people, especially on flimsy or faulty reasoning, the more they're going to want to talk about it, especially since piefed.social presented itself as an alternative "neutral" instance, making a lot of people migrate their communities and accounts there, and is now taking radical actions disconnecting people from their communities, based on nothing more than vibes.
I can't believe that every day I have to see a new drama thread about piefed or rimu or piefed.social. I can honestly say I've never seen such a level of crash-out before. Do you not see how this works? The more you push people, the more they'll push back.
Proof by identity. If you don't conform your betrayal is confirmed....
Putting this here because it's obvious it either wasn't read or ignored so it's for others. Can't add the comment that triggered this either as it got replaced by simply test but this comment still echos the previous one so sadly still entirely relevant.
So again the point is the continuation of one sided attacks from the top. Even this reply is filled with nothing but condescending well he sure is sorry if you can all ignore his actions language.
Nothing you or rimu or others on the piefed staff have said feel at all genuine to me or others.
Until that changes 🤷.
Again simply saying just get over it is a terrible way to do that.
The ban was reversed: https://piefed.social/modlog?communities=3225
Good to see, but it shouldn’t have happened in the first place. It was needlessly antagonistic drama, that only prolongs the issue.
Cool. Changes absolutely nothing but glad they realized something was done wrongly
I just shared the linux phone blog post, it does not mean that I wrote it myself.
You’re taking this way too personal mate. There wouldn’t be so much drama if Rimu and yourself have not banned people who disagreed with you. Dragging the folks from anarchist.nexus and quokk.au through the mud was too far. Have you heard of the Streisand effect?
My public statements about Piefed does not make me responsible in any shape or form of the exploits. I don’t like hundreds of people’s info being exposed either.
It’s too bad I’m on your block list for being a whistle blower. It was a nice conversing with you.
I have deleted my tarte.nuage-libre.fr account.
So you agree it hurt us too, and you’re mad at us for it? Do you think we are responsible for what some tankie did?
What have we done here to deserve to be blamed for this?