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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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Rimu published yet another hit piece against the /0 instance and this time posted it in his own instance comms as well. One of his mods jumped in, admitted they don't know anything about anything, but nevertheless felt confident enough to state their opinion as fact and in the process insult all of us collectively, then stickied his opinion for good measure.

So I decided to reply sarcastically, at which point that mod insulted me and locked the thread, which is apparently a feature in piefed which simply hides/deletes further replies in that thread, but since it's not a feature in lemmy, it appears to function like a shadow delete.

This is what my last reply would have been.

(Yes I'm being snarky, but that "I'm so mature" bullshit just rubs me the wrong way.)

In my opinion, using mod powers to get the last insult in, is just bastard behaviour.

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (62 children)

Clear PTB.

Also a nonsensical thread to start with, all conjecture (but calling it fact). I believe someone has misplaced their poop knife or other shit stirring tool, and its making posts.

Edit: To be clear, I'm talking about the lack of mod action on what is a pretty obvious shit stirring / drama farming post, but instead making an incredibly illogical and uninformed comment about it instead, then taking mod action on snark - while also throwing insults around.

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And here I am, scrolling through Lemmy like normal when I'll randomly catch glimpses of apparent Lemmy drama like this.

I don't really understand what's going on or who's at fault, all I know is every time there's some kind of instance-vs-instance bullshit, everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else and I just think "fuck it, I don't have the mental capacity to focus on trying to completely pull myself away from the bullshit"

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (10 children)

It's all good. Just grab the pop-corn and enjoy the fireworks :D

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

PTB. I’ve been annoyed with the Lemmy devs for their tankie bs and transphobia; it’s disappointing seeing the main Piefed dev get into stupid nonsense drama slapfights, especially when they’re indirectly carrying water for Zionist apologia

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow such petty behaviour from a '50 year old'. You would think @Libb@piefed.social would act more mature.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

that is the definition of chronically online, or parasocial behaviour. i followed some ytubers one time, and during the pandemic they changed politically and have these 50+year old grown ass woman(groupies of asian dudes) patrolling thier channel trying to stamp out criticism of the channel owners , whom they dont know personally, a channel geared towards 20-30s fangirls or incels. kinda similar.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 15 points 1 day ago

Rimu definitely pretty pathetic but this whole thing is pretty childish.

[–] Krusty@quokk.au 9 points 1 day ago

Discourse works much better when we stick to "I ..." statements rather than "you ..." statements.

Try speaking for oneself rather than labeling and defining and castigating others.

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