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.
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
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.
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.
Some people still believe Dessalines and Nutomic are out to get them I guess.
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.
Rimu is not just instance-beefing, he's so salty he's going against the whole FOSS ethos just to be as petty as possible. PTB.
Was it Rimu who downvoted you? hehe
Wait piefed has a secret shadowban list too?
Did they learn nothing from Tessaract?
I fucking knew it.
“You can’t trust those commies who make Lemmy! I know, I‘ll put in secret censorship to protect others from that I think is wrong! I’m the savior of the world!”
You can feed this pie right up your ass 🖕
Every accusation is projection 
The Tesseract rants did mention that Rimu should thank him for taking the heat off of him for his blocking.
Rimu:
Pretty sure they did it first, so if anything tessaract learned something from them.
Tesseract just learned they should hid it better
Actually, tesseract learned from rimu
Man, I saw a single post from Rimu some months ago and pegged them as a scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, censorious control freak totalitarian, months ago, blocked em.
Is this person like... actually important in some way, or do they just... loudly think that about themself?
They're a piefed dev/contributor or something?
Rimu initially made PieFed because he wanted more moderation tools that the lemmy devs didn't want. It was always about censorship for him.
All the original PieFed fanboy power users and slowly realizing that they picked a fascist over the communists.
Well TIL, thank you.
... fucking hell, goddamnit.
Going off the extra mod tools/features,it's very much rimu wants to try and make the next version of social media. One that makes reddits control over users look like child play in comparison.
Basically if you don't act like how rimu wants the walled garden to be you get progressively filtered out
Yeah, this is PTB.
You can't just shut down an otherwise on topic comment because you don't like it. I mean, you can, but if it's in this situation you're using your position to block dissent. That's literally what power tripping is.
PTB, but it’s Rimu so what can you expect?
