this post was submitted on 15 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.


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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.

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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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Rimu not simply happy with deleting comments is removing entire users now to suppress people countering his lies.

Free speech is banned on PieFed.Social, only praise of dear leader is allowed.

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[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 20 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Free speech is banned on PieFed.Social, only praise of dear leader is allowed.

Rimus logic is this is just people trying to do targeted harassment. Cause it's harassment to keep shining light on terrible decisions and actions.

https://piefed.social/comment/12508093

Yeah see this is exactly the sort of bad faith bullshit I’ve been dealing with for months.

https://join.piefed.social/2026/08/14/open-source-runs-on-good-faith/

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I read his little -open source runs on good faith- essay. I find it pretty ironic when he says "A healthy project allows someone to occasionally be wrong, awkward, inexperienced, tired or ill without immediately turning that event into a judgement about their character. When someone makes a decision and other people jump to conclusions about transphobia, ableism, etc then it becomes a determinant of someone’s moral value. And that’s toxic."

Pretty hypocritical, considering he banned me almost as soon as I joined piefed back in the early days. It wasn’t based on anything I said or posted. It was based on what other people who disliked me claimed about me.

I’d love for him to point to any quote or post of mine on any instance that was actually ban-worthy.

His PTB trip seems more obvious every day. Between OP’s ban and several others we've been seeing lately, I think we’re going to see more of the same hypocrisy.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 10 points 16 hours ago

Rimu Salazar is the real victim in this story!

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

-7000 PieFed credit

We take your cat wife and turn your city to ash in an hour

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 16 hours ago

I'd love to know what my credit score is on Piefed. Is there a way to find out?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 points 17 hours ago

What a loser

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 16 hours ago

PTB! He just keeps making bad decisions. I don't think he's gonna change.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Look at how heavily piefed.social censors this topic in their search screen.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 11 points 16 hours ago

It's also interesting to see one of the other admins/mods being the one to post rimus blog post, but then rimu just being in the thread using it as his response in same thread

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

seriously, do these two have a bet running on who can be more of a whiny, petulant child or something? I seem to remember some backlash against Rimu before for acting shitty (though I don't remember what for off the top of my head) that was quickly overshadowed and forgotten about because of the Tesseract debacle. It's like they're mad that their thunder got stolen.

[–] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm out of touch, who is admiral patrick? Is this just a meme?

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 21 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Admiral Patrick was the Tesseract dev that included many instances, random communities, and individual users on a blacklist to get filtered in his frontend

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 15 points 16 hours ago

A secret blacklist that was being foisted on every user.

Just petty fascism.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 9 points 16 hours ago

They basically used a fronted end ui used by many instances to push their own views of what people should see

[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago

seriously, do these two have a bet running on who can be more of a whiny, petulant child or something?

Yes.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 16 points 1 day ago

Rimu admires the unquestionable father figure rule.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Option 1: apologize, add in back the attribution, reverse the censorship, move on.

Option 2: Whatever the fuck this is.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What the hell? Why am I not deleted? 😆

[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe your username didn't seem tankie enough. Btw, aren't you the cookie dough lover?

Btw, aren't you the cookie dough lover?

Yes lol 😆

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It’s the list all over again, either you’re cool enough to be deleted or you’re not.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 16 hours ago

either you’re cool enough to be deleted or you’re not.

Oh! I'm finally one of the cool kids! I got deleted and banned from piefed back in the early days when it was still new! I feel so proud! lol

I've never been so non-conflicted before about being cool. Cool.

[–] Bryllyg@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wtf?

What does it mean to be deleted? I am not familiar with how that works in the fedi...

[–] Andy_R@feddit.uk 48 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It removes the account from the instance as if it never existed.

Users on PieFed.social cannot ever again see my posts or visit my profile.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

It’s the 1984 memory hole. Rimu fancies himself as a benevolent dictator.

Badge of honor 🫡

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Thank your for your service

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The irony, in all of this, is that feddit was born because the Lemmy authors were too left wing for done people.

I never followed that discussion too closely, but I doubt things ever went that far with them.

[–] cloudskater@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Being a tankie is hardly left wing, it's cosplaying as a leftist while being a fascist in actuality.

[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What zero theory does to a mfer.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Read theory screams the Tankie, while doing nothing in real life. Why go do things that help your area when you can act smug on the internet, that's what Marx said to do.

[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You're on an instance named after a guy who can't spell.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

What a comeback! #Owned

[–] maam@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago

He will claim that he is just saving server resources.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 9 points 1 day ago
[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 9 points 1 day ago

what a shitstain lol