this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2025
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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.
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.
YTPB 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
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Hexbear users, mods, admins and myself did not make posts in other communities that were attempts to bait, troll, or "brigade". We may have commented in posts questioning liberalism, and I acknowledge that there was a bug with cross-instance emojis but the behavior of me, the other admins, and hexbear users are in accordance with every other federated instance.
You and many other admins have a problem with hexbear's ideology, which I understand it is difficult to be questioned from the left when acting as the adults in the room but if that is the reason then say so.
Which is besides the point as we are discussing the federation of hexbear and lemmy.world. As .world admins preemptively defederated with hexbear because hexbear is a leftist instance.
What was your (slrpnk admin's) reasoning for also preemptively defederating from hexbear?
You are either gaslighting yourself or are trying to do so with possible readers here if you deny the problematic cross-instance behavior of many (not all of course) Hexbear users or the tacit approval of that by the admins (clearly shown by the inaction of them). This, and only this is the reason we defederated, and to my knowledge was also the main reason why lemmy.world defederated.
You (slrpnk) and .world defederated from hexbear before we enabled federation as a result of either a malicious misunderstanding of the hexbear local post regarding federation or not even reading the entire hexbear federation post.
How can there be problematic cross-instance behavior if hexbear wasn't federated when you made the choice to defederate?
As with this entire discussion you seem to be able to give a surface level reading while applying your own personal bias against hexbear, creating a strawman when the facts are linked in this very post.