this post was submitted on 16 Apr 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:

  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.

Rules


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.


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1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
@MrKaplan@piefed.world
2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
instance ban
3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
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4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
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5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
@MrKaplan@lemmy.world has decided that one can only say nice things about the company or else you're a troll despite having years long legitimate user history. No rules were broken, only @MrKaplan@piefed.world's feelings. Furthermore I wasn't even the one to call them "and shitlibs" (The FHF is, I just didn't say it) - yet @MrKaplan@piefed.world has decided we both should get instance banned for this.

Good to know that Lemmy.world and the Fedihosting Foundation will tolerate StoneToss and Jago but draw the line at their company being called, a real unofficial rule being enforced on multiple users now.

And Hi @mrkaplan@discuss.online, I know you're watching these threads now :) I made this for you
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Edit:

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They’ve updated the ban, I’m now banned for stuff I did after being instance banned and not even visible from their instance.

Nice to know you enjoy my FHF meme MrKaplan!

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I made that comment and I stand by it, cope and seethe FHF shitlibs

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fediverse Hosting Foundation, they own .world and piefed.world. They own a bunch of other stuff and spread liberalism wherever they are (including but not limited to: genocide apologia, capitalist propaganda, anti revolutionary rhetoric, transphobia, general bigotry, and pure braindead nonsense).

[–] Sunshine@piefed.zip 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

PTB, LW liberals too busy silencing people for speaking against injustice.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Jordan is sooo proud of his little mod badges in his profile! lmao

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

1984

guilt by association this time, these assholes care way more about people calling them out than any number of people posting fash-adjacent garbage, clear PTB and reasons why people should steer clear of .world affiliated instances

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Great example of why "trolling" should not be against the rules. It's way too subjective and ends up getting abused nine times out of ten. Most people banned for trolling are just being kinda rude or flippant, particularly when it has a political slant the mod doesn't like. If you want to maintain a strict community where politeness is heavily enforced then so be it. But I haven't seen such a community, and trolling is more than just being rude anyway. So in practice these rules are almost always just a cudgel to ban the mod's political adversaries.

But yeah if this is an accurate representation of the events then obviously PTB.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not only did they ban for trolling but it was on a different comm in a different instance

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 months ago

Oh wow that's pretty wack.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yep, I've been called a bad faith troll since I got on Lemmy 2 years ago. Even tho I have never ever changed my mind or what I post about. In two fucking years and hundreds of posts. lol

Maybe Lemmy should accept that some people just have their own opinions, and that it's not "trolling."

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 2 months ago

Rules are only ever there at the mods discretion. Most mods will ban anyone they want to no matter what the rules are. Mod abuse is ripe on Lemmy, even more so somehow than it was/is on reddit.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 16 points 2 months ago

FediHosting Foundation, the parent org behind Lemmy.world, PieFed.world, etc.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

hahahaha MrKaplan called out on his bullshit! LMAO

.world and FHF are pretty much just Reddit now. Fuck them all. Soooo glad I am on dbzer0 and can see them regularly get called out.

PTB!

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the third thread and I still dont know, why do you label the Fedihosting Federation as zionists? Am I missing something obvious?

[–] MrNobody@quokk.au 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

LW has a history of its leadership pushing Zionist propaganda and silencing Palestinian views.

They routinely go to defend pieces of irredeemable shit like JordanLund or Gedaliyah. They get more bent out of shape for being called members of a German political party during the 1930s than they do about genocide being committed.

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

I still can't believe Gedaliyah is a mod of news.

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And Fedihosting is equal to lemmy.world / has a huge overlap in people and/or values?

Sorry to ask like that, it's not like I don't believe, I just want to know the actual reason instead of just following what other people say.

[–] MrNobody@quokk.au 5 points 2 months ago

Fedihosting is the parent company of LW. They are in charge of the people and values.

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tbh deceptichum is a troll account and should be banned

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Troll for what? 2 days and no proof.

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just look through their post history, a lot of their comments/posts are inflammatory.

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

Nope, seems fine to me.