this post was submitted on 14 Aug 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:
- 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.
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I don't see how people can still use piefed with someone like this in charge. A new red flag pops up every month. It's hard to see them among all the other red flags.
I mean, they need to be able to see the red flags for them to get them to leave.
This community doesn't exist on piefed.social, so anything posted here isn't visible to anyone there.
If he's manipulating how the fediverse looks so much, maybe a defederation is in order.
That would only happen if lemmy world admins disagreed with rimu
Some people still believe @dessalines@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@lemmy.ml are out to get them I guess. It's ironic because every talking point about developer overreach and unilateral decisions applies to piefed more than it does Lemmy. I know it has more features and it feels like Lemmy 1.0 is taking forever, I'm still holding out hope for it and making do with what we have here.
But then they can come to Mbin instead of Piefed! We don't have any of these issues.
good news, nobody who like Piefed has to use it. we've gotten PyLova to the point it's running Quokk.au and Anarchist.Nexus, and we've not only removed the censorship and the bias, but we've also improved the UI, made some new themes, and most important of all patched some security vulnerabilities.
at this point it's better than Piefed in every way.
This is my first hearing of PyLova, could I get a rundown? Is it a fork of piefed? Seperate project? Are there things it has that piefed doesnt, or things piefed has that PyLova doesnt currently? What's the state of app support (I assume not there presently, which is totally fair)
It's a fork of piefed that's currently more feature advanced. If you scroll through the comments on this post somebody else posted more details about said features.
App support is identical to piefed, since the api is the same.
Just wanna say the new themes slap, got my vaporwave fix.
Just curious, but why not use Lemmy instead?
there's a lot of features that PyLova has that Lemmy does not.
For me in particular:
<img height="auto">Other stuff idcb:
one of the biggest for me is the ability to disable downvotes for people who aren't from trusted servers. we have a lot of :slopper: downvoting anything genAI they see. restricting downvotes to exclusively FAF instances wiped out the problem.
I use the term “rank” now, because pylova/fed already implemented comment voting, as in, if you post a question, anyone can vote for answers. It's meant to give pylova stackoverflow behaviours: best voted answer get pinned up. Ranking a comment or post doesn't affect how folks pin comments on a question post.
Totally agree with you. Which sucks because I really wanted to like the project. But the more stuff that comes out about it and the creator just makes me shake my head.
Same here. I even tried it, finding the whole project tainted with Rimus outspoken ideals. While, on lemmy, all the bullshit is in the open and corralled into the devs pet instance.
I appreciate how the lemmy developers keep their views and moderation decisions separate from the software. Opinions and moderation are unavoidably divisive topics. Keeping that separate from the software itself is smart. I don't hold their views against the lemmy platform because of that separation.
I wish Rimu would see the wisdom in keeping those things separate. Its damaging to piefed, which is otherwise quite good.
Sadly it isn't possible as they're less making a federation software as trying to make their own vision of what social media should be.
Rimu goes by he/him pronouns please don't misgender.
Piefed implinents pronouns in a way that doesn't seem to be compatible with lemmy. I can only seem his pronouns on his profile when viewed through piefed.
I get where you're coming from but they are is not me trying to do any gender.
Plus it's hard to want to give respect to someone who gives zero respect to anyone else especially the Trans community
Edit I love my instance bur damn does it's unstable nature make it hard sometimes