this post was submitted on 28 Mar 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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[–] metakrakalaka@lemmychan.org 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

There are some crazy power-tripping mods that will ban you for posting things in other communities.

This just creates more demand for communities and instances that don't do that.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I tried joining Piefed instead of Lemmy... Before even making a single comment I was banned from 3 communities for "Lemmy account with same username has been seen to start arguments on the Lemmy equivalent to this community"

Fucking thoughtcriming me

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

Piefed communities are creepy. It's a platform based on the concept of those dead duplicate communities trying to boycott the Lemmy devs.

The piefed communities that come across my feed are so curated and empty it's always just a mod fighting with every other comment.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, I was so excited about piefed when it first came out. But the thoughtcriming and social rating based on people disgreeing with you, took the shine off pretty quick.

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

You know as soon as you got on PieFed, the dev would hard code censoring you because you don't support liberalism.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

Yep! I someone even mentioned that on the main piefed.social site, I was banned on there before I could even sign up and they had me on some "list." LMAO

Happens on lemmy as well.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Careful their PR team will come here to say why you are wrong on what the code does!

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That night be there antibot automation. You can appeal if it wasn't you. It's their current attempt to try to combat some AI bots that have been around on Lemmy.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (6 children)

They're automating assessments of user interactions on Lemmy as an anti-bot measure?

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[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah that's dirty.
You could probably appeal those bans, but just autobanning everyone that reminds you of something bad isn't a very good way to build community.
Those 3 communities are probably just one guy with a precrime banbot, btw

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, there was a reason to ban you. It just was not a valid reason.

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (12 children)

Should be pretty easy to figure out the mod responsible, especially since it's across multiple instances.

Either way, I'm really not a fan of mods just banning someone from every single comm they mod. If you want to be an admin, make your own instance please.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

It's very "reddit like" abuse of power behavior.

And is honestly something instance admins should be able to crack down on.

It's easy enough to defederate from instances that are toxic, but it's not so easy to do the same for individual communities that are mass owned by one or two people who abuse their power.

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[–] BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago (9 children)

All I see is no VPN and an almost dead battery. No idea what the rest is about

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What the fuck is even going on in this thread.

[–] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 4 days ago (7 children)

one or more bigots keep making lots of harassment accounts to attack draconic neo. they spam posts like this and the trans communities too with their shit

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No clue. I came in here thinking it was about one thing, then I see people arguing about different shit. lol

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

It's become so many different things it's wild.

  • tor criticism
  • troll campaign attacking db0 mod
  • piefed pros and cons
  • slap flights and insults
[–] BootyEnthusiast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Here's the mod who did all this btw:

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 27 points 4 days ago

They've been on a tear lately it seems.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

Yeah that checks out.

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[–] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Lemmy has a real problem with alts and sock puppeting

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, it's easy to see the problem on Lemmy. Every place has it but Reddit and the like make it difficult to notice.

[–] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, tho pretending any given account on reddit is a real person acting in good faith is ah… wishful thinking

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Lemmy is terrible software for stopping bad actors. I feel like the devs designed it.

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[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 4 days ago

Some mods have victim complex think if they shut down any dissenting voice they have achieved

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's like a dozen people that seem to fuel the dramatic arcs of the fediverse.

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