this post was submitted on 27 Jul 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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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

You're on Lemmy.world which is a very large lib instance (very dem friendly, but highly sanitized). They have defederated with the leftests (hexbear.net, Lemmy.ml [the Lemmy dev's home instance], and lemmygrad.ml) over "extreme views" and ~~the anarchists (Lemmy.dbze0.com) over piracy support~~ (oh my mistake, they just blocked all piracy communities) long time ago. I'll let someone else explain the flotilla.

As for good instances, it depends what kind of experience you want to have. Why isn't there an instance test yet?

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

World has never defederated from lemmy.ml, partially because they're the dev's home instance.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

nah, scare quotes can naff off. Hexbear was dogpiling like crazy and .ml is just...IDK what they're doing over there but everyone's banned from it.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not scare quotes, I'm representing that this was .world's view.

And what hexbear was doing was interacting with the common reditor refugee after interacting with nothing but their leftest instance for years. It was a clash of cultures, and I think the right thing happened. I think that's the great thing about the fediverse - being able to decide (as instance, comm, or user) who you interact with, which was what the tesseract dev was taking away from people.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 9 hours ago
[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I still get lemmy ml , maybe because I'm on sync, but I've blocked it several times.