this post was submitted on 16 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:

  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.


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  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

Snoopy

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

Community ban

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

  1. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/ comment that was removed, or got you banned).

I woke up to suddenly being banned with a dm that was misgendering me. It appears the real reason I was banned was due to fact I was critical of Piefed's recent actions.

Snoopy has no evidence that “I personally released the exploits into the wild" It was actually @yogthos@lemmy.ml who did the deed. I'm not technically enough to be pull it off, nor do I want to.

  1. Explain why you think it’s unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Hopefully unbanned and unblocked.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

Well, I'm late to the party, but PTB.

The reason may be odd though.

It's the reason given that's why I jumped straight to PTB. Didn't need to see anything else.

Any mod or admin that gives that as a ban reason that isn't just cleaning up dead accounts or bots, is automatically power tripping. They could ban the same people, and even for the same things, and not have me immediately knowing they're power tripping with just two words.

It's also smug as fuck all, and I've gotten extra pissy about smug assholes in my middle age. But that's borderline being an asshole myself, so I won't go into it beyond that.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 15 hours ago (9 children)

I don't understand the piefed.Social people at all. Are they just making up reality as they go along?

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Rimu is. The rest of them are either tacking onto his coattails because they believe they'll also gain some amount of control, believe (naively) that they can control him or are buying into his bullshit as the single irrefutable source.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 28 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I think they really believe the "orchestrated harrassment" bit and everything bad against them is done as part of a conspiracy to kill piefed because... tankies hate us for our freedoms or something

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[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 22 points 13 hours ago

This is extra fantastic as snoopy keeps calming it's all over and it's time to make up, while they or rimu again kick those who bring up issues or concerns.

And a massive red flag to fucking ban/retaliate against those who discover and disclose vulnerabilities.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 31 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

@yogthos@lemmy.ml didn’t release exploits into the wild. He publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, which could be used to create exploits. We removed the post at the request of the developer, and he has since released a security update.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability_(computer_security)#Disclosure

Someone who discovers a vulnerability may disclose it immediately (full disclosure) or wait until a patch has been developed (responsible disclosure, or coordinated disclosure). The former approach is praised for its transparency, but the drawback is that the risk of attack is likely to be increased after disclosure with no patch available.

Yogthos has made a follow-up post: PSA: open source security considerations in the era of LLMs

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

The discussion is full disclosure vs responsible disclosure. I think almost everyone who is familiar with the situation agrees that:

  • yogthos didn't create the vulnerability
  • the vulnerability should be patched, and the public needed to be made aware of them

~~I don't see why full disclosure is still being suggested as having been the right call in this case.~~ A patch would have come out just as fast with a responsible disclosure, and there was nothing that users of Lemmy or Piefed could do by becoming aware of it right away. Meanwhile the full disclosure harms regular users, instance operators, and developers alike. I think it would ALSO be bad if someone did this to the Lemmy developers, or any other project.

Responsible disclosure would have meant

  • contact the developer and wait a reasonable time for a patch
  • contact instance operators to let them know that they may want to take steps before the patch is out

Even if we assume that malicious entities are actively exploiting the vulnerability, which is an assumption and not confirmed, publicly promoting it only makes the problem worse and doesn't speed up any resolution.

I understand that there is also tension between Yogthos and Rimu. I think Yogthos would have come out of this looking a lot better if they went with responsible disclosure

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