tbf the prime directive clearly states 'open source devs have the right to embed obfuscated arbitary blocklists in their software without notyifying users, and DDOS anyone who points it out'
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
Relevant comms
So when do instances start defederating startrek.website since they clearly want to be alone?
lemy.lol has announced to defederate 30 minutes ago and is currently defederated.
And much respect to them for how they handled this/themselves.

I guessed I'd be seeing something here with the bans and removals that started cropping up in that thread...
100% PTB. Just removing anyone who is pointing out that its related to tesseract, a total lie, etc.
I'm not surprised. They were shit mods back on reddit and continue their shitty ways here in the fedi

Out of curiosity what app do you use? For whatever reason I've never been able to get .gifs to upload (work in comments) using Jerboa.
I've noticed that when you copy-paste a gif it ends up with only the first frame as a still image, but if you actually save it as a .gif file and then upload it, it works.
This is with either the default web UI or Voyager, BTW.
Voyager
Boost.
GIFs often fail to upload due to size restrictions of the instances we use. When that happens, I upload to imgur or catbox and embed the link instead.
I guess someone needs to create the Star.trek lemmey instance
Man I don't even know what instance I'm on. Is there a good instance?
Glad I already deleted my account there. And blocked the instance.
Shame, but I'd rather not be around members of a fandom that actively support shitty and shady practices like that, and I sure as FUCK don't want an admin that's complicit
What is the suggested star trek community to use?
!risa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I saw that one, but the posts are from 6 months ago.
Scroll down, those are pinned.
Last post is from ~2hrs ago.
Get on the good foot and do the bad thing! (by bad thing, I mean steal all their content and repost it on Risa!)
Tenfoward is my usual go to but i gotta find an alt since it's on .world
Risa had some batshit drama of their own
You know, I'm just realising that maybe AdmiralPatrick might have a bit more in common with his name sake than I originally considered. It doesn't make what he did okay. -Like the augments trying to give classified war plans to the enemy- but it does reframe it a little bit. pure speculation on my part but curious. Tenforward was my fav too but I'm settling into this account before I start making another alt.
My big fat autistic arse with regulation issues is looking at him going "what a wretched cunt"
yeah, he was def playing a bit more like Jack than Patrick
!risa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
!tenforward@piefed.world
That one also hasn't had anything posted in a while though.
Is this the same Star Trek instance that had some huge drama with The Picard Manuever (? Maybe it was someone else?) that led to a user exodus? Or a different one?
Idk probably, the admins and mods over there are always power tripping about something.
There was also the whole Stamets writeup last year about their bs to
God, Stamets must be sitting there giggling into their icecream rn. Canary in the coal mine
I always knew Stamets was a good egg.
We all knew Stamets was right just not HOW right
Stamets! That’s who I was thinking of.
And now the whole thread is deleted.
Looks like its just locked to me
Ok this is getting beyond "i h8 j00" territory and starting to sound like a spurned suitor boiling bunnies. Patrick. Patrick. You will find love. But not like this