this post was submitted on 14 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.

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.

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Rimu Mass Bans Users (quokk.au)

submitted 1 month ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

@rimu@piefed.social

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

Mass instance bans

Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

Done

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.

He has abused the modlog to claim 'harassment', which I have never engaged in. I have not even interacted with Rimu in any way for days prior to getting kicked from the PieFed developer Matrix channels.

He has decided to mass ban 20 users because they have spoken out against his erratic and hostile behaviour as of late.

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Rimu needs to be the first person since Conner O'Malley to be criminally convicted for being weird. Rimu, why do you choose to be this person?

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago

Rimu is the creator of piefed? Glad I never switched, then! The Lemmy devs are certainly problematic in their own way, but piefed seems particularly heavy-handed in its censorship and banning.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 month ago

How can I participate in the next big harassment campaign? Do I get paid in Yuan? Ruble? Can I get it via Xi JinPIX?

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 26 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I don't think an additional post would be helpful, but it seems I've been banned from feddit.online as well.

Which I'm not even sure if I've ever been on?

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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the people i recognize on the list are anarchists

y0kai, unruffled, db0, stamets, quokka

what is happening here

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@rimu@piefed.social seems to going on a crusade against anyone who calls him out on his atrocious behavior. Either that or he just hates anarchists.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

To clarify, a bunch of Marxists are on this list too. Rimu is on a crusade against Marxists and anarchists, essentially anyone calling Rimu and Piefed out.

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[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Being online via Lemmy caused me not one, but 2 mental collapses (I'm fine now, diagnosed with bipolar and have meds now) so I decided to give PieFed a shot, since I get bored on "fedi" (I hate that name for the Misskey forks). The promise of better features faster seemed amazing (politics of Lemmy devs aside). I've been around since the very first day of the Reddit API fiasco, and despite this 2 week-old account, I've been around the block. The age of this account is not coincidental. Thankfully, the FAF exposed Rimu's bullshit so I decided to start fresh yet again with the FAF (I'm already an anarchist, so why not?) due to this inexcusable drama stirring.

My biggest hope is that the AN fork of PieFed is deployed soon and properly maintained, because Rimu has changed from "dev making a new product with easy contributions" to "perhaps the biggest authoritarian threat to the threadiverse driven by sycophants" in a matter of weeks.

Rimu has banned some of the largest voices on the platform with this fell-swoop. This entire thing likely deserves its own static website in order to document what's going on, because people on the flagship PieFed instance are never likely to see it. I may do this just because this is worse more than many realize, I think. We collectively saw threads dot net happening and basically all of the threadiverse defederated due to obvious foreseeable issues.

This reminds me of that guy that was DM'ing people with a ban every time they used the word "bro" but on a much larger and more influential scale. We aren't talking about a mod (that was on piefed btw, I think he made his own instance) now, but an entire development effort that can deeply harm not only this platform, but the very idea of this platform as a whole.

In short,
FUCK RIMU

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 22 points 1 month ago

PTB rat-salute

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