this post was submitted on 13 May 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.

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Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
Rimu

What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Kicking from all Matrix PieFed rooms

Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Rimu has been manufacturing non-stop drama for weeks. He ignores multiple offers from multiple parties to de-escalate, and now he bans someone for trying to promote non-discriminatory language. He has also now cut off a PieFed admin from any and all support and ability to contribute to the software.

Oh and the real kicker ? Rimu did all this after his big grand post about how he is stepping back from drama and hiding away from users.

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[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Complaining about manufacturing drama in the same post as someone wanting the word “stupid” changed because it’s “problematic” 🤣

PTB though. I knew Piefed was an authoritarian hellhole from the first time I saw its features.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zip 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, that is a weird jump in accusations. Like... completely non-sequitur. If some important context isn't missing, this is weird behavior. possibly a sign of pathological issues.

so, yeah, unless something important is missing, PTB

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Stamets wrote up an amazing summary of events so far if you can find it.

There’s a lot of previous drama Rimu has made that you can see across the few posts below this one and on the Fediverse comms. The latest thing was he shadowbanned quokk.au so their posts don’t show up in all or new users can find the instance to join.

He’s declared war on anarchists and all other leftists basically.

Edit: He has now provided his “justification” for the act

Mind you he hasn’t kicked anyone else on the same “side” as her.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zip 24 points 1 week ago

man, why are devs, so often, just sources of bullshit

she has to deal with the consequences of her actions (which I hand out)

catgirl-disgust

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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well the reason is obvious after all

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

the PTB continues

mia:

asks to remove insult to peoples intelligence from the function name for the hardcoded 'low effort' post filter

rimu:

'i'll have you know i am not transphobic, see i made a pronoun tag'

mia:

attempts to de-escalate and explain that this was not a personal criticism

kicked

Oh and the real kicker ? Rimu did all this after his big grand post about how he is stepping back from drama and hiding away from users.

when i read that post the subtext was always 'i'm isolating myself from anyone critical, only interacting through alts and toadies going forward'

like say what you will about the lemmy devs they've received way more criticism, targeted harassment and smears over the years without needing to turn it into a big vendetta like this has been. for example i've said that i think nutomic should step back in the past because of his actions! while i wish he handled that situation better and

while i wish his apology for it was better,

at least since then he has left us alone and has largely stepped back from moderating things, rather than attempting to actively silence all dissent

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Being a developer is difficult, because a lot of people pay attention to what you say. And any mistake can get a lot of visibility. Sometimes I wish that Lemmy was a company, with a community manager who takes care of these things. But anyway, it is how it is.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

in your case as well it doesn't help that there's a subset of ideologically motivated people just waiting to jump on any comment to run a smear campaign on it.

for me actions speak louder than words and despite my initial disappointment following the dm leak, years have passed and i haven't seen that turn into a pattern of behavior.

i will say i kind of prefer that lemmy isn't a company, in part because frankly i trust a handful of communists to not just hand over user info and ip addresses to the alphabet boys more than i would any sort of company

[–] erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

PTB

"look at me im an ally!" like no bro, you dont get to decide that yourself. because you didnt get a pat on the back for this, or an apology for your perceived wrongdoings you ban them, immediately after they try to peacefully deescalate the situation. crazy behavior.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago

Apparently, so long as someone isn't openly anti-AI, it's ok to use bigoted language towards them. This is, sadly, pretty standard fare for the typical liberal, who is perfectly happy to descend into homophobia or transphobia if it means they can use it to mock their their political opponents.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the more I see of Rimu's behavior, the less inclined I am to believe he's an adult.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is particularly hilarious God Complex behavior coming from the person that just recently tried to argue for essentially a Fediverse UN... 100% missing the entire point of federation, that there is no one single central authority.

Like this is lolcow behavior, just very plainly.

[–] SatansDaughter@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Why is every maintainer of the threadiverse unhinged, like I switched to piefed partially because I disagreed with the politics of the Lemmy devs, and recently the piefed dev does weird stuff. Does making foss software really have that big of an effect on someone's mental health?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago

Because us developers, we are just a couple of nerds on the Internet. We didn't study public relations or politics at university, and don't know which spontaneous comment might generate a shitstorm. Unlike /u/spez we don't have a PR team writing posts for us. And because there is no profit motive, Lemmy and Piefed don't need to appeal to everyone like Reddit does. Consider it the price to pay for using a non-commercial platform.

[–] Krusty@quokk.au 14 points 1 week ago

It becomes tantalizing when you have your software running on others systems to see what you can get away with.

FOSS is notorious for egomaniacs. That's why there's so many forks and endless implementations of basically the same shit! Just with some new unpronounceable name that'll often be abandoned in short order.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The unfortunate truth is people who are enamored with programming find it so enticing because it's a part of the universe that works exactly the way you tell it (for better or worse). Kind of like how kids who are traumatized build forts to hide in or something.

If code doesn't do what you want there's a way to fix it and make it behave. There seems to be a correlation where the best programmers can't tolerate the unpredictability of other human beings or reality...

To be clear, yes I'm a programmer too, and yes I built forts as a kid so this is speaking from experience from talking to other IT/programmer people 😂 it's a common theme I've noticed.

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[–] alapakala@quokk.au 22 points 1 week ago (9 children)
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[–] maam@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can’t believe Rimu is antagonising friendly Quokka. What happened to him in the last few weeks?

When a lot of people criticised him and left the Piefed general group chat he responds so poorly.

[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

I feel like Reddit Gold is a more respectable purchase than donating to CreampieFBI

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Aside from the silly drama i dont care about, stupid is a bad word now? What the fuck.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it's been a bad word for a long time, mostly for children. many parents try to prohibit it because it really does come out as hateful more often than not

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[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago

This is probably one of the most terminally online things i've seen so far

PTB, @rimu@piefed.social just loves to manufacture outrage for stupid reasons, or for no reason at all. That response and kicking @Quokka@quokk.au was straight out of left field.

[–] NotFrenchJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

I'm not a close (or any kind of) follower of these dramas, but judging by the kind of unhinged "fans" PieFed seemed to attract, and the expressed reason(s) for that attraction, I wouldn't be surprised at all if trying to appease them for months is taking a heavy toll.

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Extremely bizarre behaviour.

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