I hear that in MJK's voice.
Seven one
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.
All posts should follow this basic structure:
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.
Relevant comms
I hear that in MJK's voice.
Seven one
Major PTB from those in charge at LW. I left lemmy.world a long time ago because of behavior like this back when they were having a feud over the existence of piracy communities. I had a gut feeling they would sooner or later start mass banning people or defederate due to stupid reasons. And it seems I was right about that even if I wasn't right on the specifics of what. Honestly I want no part in this. It's why I don't really touch lemmy.world at all anymore.
If those assholes could go back Reddit I'd be so happy
Pretty sure they think they're building the next reddit and once they get rid of the unmentionables it'll finally take off
Well, they can.
Then problem is they aren't.
Serinus is a Zionist moron who thinks anyone who doesn't obey their sugar daddy power admin must be deleted. PTB for sure.
Who know they the person who supported flat world being discussed in equal measures as reality itself was a bad guy?
And now they're banning people for just pointing out they're bullying others and other instances lol
Absolutely perfectly stereotypical 'reddit mod' behavior.
Pointing this out and how he's trying to deflect away from previous terrible decisions got me banned too. Guess I just needed to be a flat earther to have my comments kept
https://lemmy.world/modlog/5?page=1&actionType=All&modId=108149
Edit, apparently people being upset are just doing an agenda. And it's okay for world to do it since it's against a small instance....
It’s mostly half a dozen very loud people who have a particular agenda.
The previously defederated instance has 165 total accounts, lifetime.
PTB. Fuck Zionists
That announcement thread simultaneously has a user freely and actively running hasbara about the Nakba.
You see, Zionist talking points of how Arabs are evil is fine, saying that's wrong is what gets you banned.
Like how countries are currently putting sanctions on Iran for defending itself from another illegal occupation/war.
LW doesn't see that as an issue though. It's what they want on the platform
As tired as I am of the drama, this is classic PTB! It's the perfect example of it!
3 years ago: "Oh neat, this instance seems to fit well for me "
Lately: Chuckles "I'm in danger!"
The way federation is protected from this shit happening is by people spreading out. Don't join a popular instance. You can still interact with them without being a member of their instance. If one instance gets power, like Lemmy.world, you just end up in another situation like Reddit, where they can control the platform. You should definitely leave, if you aren't already planning to. Find a small instance that does what you want.
Tbh it is a quick a painless process to jump from .world to another instance. I only done this the other day from .world and boy howdy the amount of content that I can see. The fediverse feels new again.
I did exactly that when lemmy.world leaked my user registration e-mail address to Israel (I! Kid! You! Not!) as I was loudly anti-Genocide and critical of Zionism and I started receiving invitations to an online "learn about Israel" event in it.
It was a very easy transition.
this deserves its own post wtf
There's not really much I can prove, especially if I don't want to reveal much about my identity.
Holy shit, got any more info you can add?
Well, according to what was written in the e-mail it was from a Tel-Aviv based organisation. Also it was in my native language, which isn't English.
That said, they only sent 2 or 3 e-mails and then stopped.
As far as I understand only Lemmy administrators of a user's instance have access to user registration e-mail address, not moderators.
All of that also kinda dovetails with the pro-Zionist tone of all the main forums in that instance (especially back then, when it used to be incredibly common to have your posts moderated away as "anti-semitic" in those forums for criticizing Israel) and, as shown here, at least one of their Administrators being an overt Zionist.
Further, it makes a lot of sense for Lemmy.world to be a target for infiltration for state actors since it's the biggest instance of a left-of-center social media system and hosts several of its biggest forums, so frankly none of that shit was all that surprising.
Further, it makes a lot of sense for Lemmy.world to be a target for infiltration for state actors since it’s the biggest instance of a left-of-center social media system and hosts several of its biggest forums, so frankly none of that shit was all that surprising.
While saying everyone other istance against them is paid off by governments. Seeing as they project constantly...
This is very disturbing.
Yeah, I highly recommend starting your switch to another instance immediately. There is a discussion happening behind the scenes for a number of other major instances to defederate from lemmy.world if LW does indeed go through with the defederation from dbzer0 because, at that point, Kaplan will have proven a few things.
That Kaplan/LW admins value individual users like themselves over the entirety of an instances users
That Kaplan/LW admins are not willing to engage in the same type of reporting behavior that they ask others to do
That Kaplan/LW admins will be taking nuclear options in order to bully smaller instances into bowing to what they want you to do
That Kaplan/LW admins will be policing what you think as they have literally zero evidence that there is any support for Luminous' behavior and, in fact, has been pushback. It's so ridiculous that Jordan Lund said this in their moderator chat for Lemmy.world. A chat that I just sit in and quietly drink my tea watching them lie boldfaced.

The welcome mat is ready for you on DB0
PTB for sure. This whole situation is one big shit show. I really hope people don't let them get away with this just because they're a big instance. I really hope some kind of defederation or action happens as a result.
Zionists sure are fragile beings. Call for genocide of mostly children just so you can prop up a bunch of instagram houses on their corpses but can't take a little death threat? glass houses and whatnot i suppose. i'm glad i switched off of it when i did, people should seriously stop recommending it for beginners.
do they side with the tankie instances? it seems like they agree on alot of things besides who they support.
PTB, I always knew that Serinus was biased, stuck up and irrational.
I think all of LW's staff are in some way or they wouldn't be there.
Oh yeah, this is the good shit! I gobbled a bowl of oatmeal reading through the whole thing.
I am satisfied.
Thank you for the meal! 👍
I don’t get it. If I’m on lw, and it is de federated from dbzero, how am I seeing this post which is on dbzero server.
Because they haven't. They're threatening to. I'd recommend clicking on that link to the announcement post and checking out the comments.
The tl;dr is that they had defederated from anarchist.nexus (the piefed version of dbzer0) and was threatening to defederate from dbzer0 despite never actually talking with anyone from either instance before beginning the defederation proceedings. After a day, Kaplan made the announcement post which has been getting overwhelmingly negative reactions to the decision on behalf of LW Admins. This led to Kaplan reversing the defederation for anarchist.nexus but, as the announcement post states, is still considering defederating from dbzer0 and if they do so will also defederate from anarchist.nexus again. They have literally no reason for this defederation at this stage.
Also, just FYI, defederation has some unintuitive behavior. IIRC, you will not receive content from the defederated instance but if your instance-mates post there, you will see that content, since it's actually from your own instance. Something like that, anyway.
Takes a momemt. Might be announced in chat before typed in terminal. Isnt final yet. I still say we defederate them first. I think i already have all their subs blocked.
The aforementioned defederation decision is still pending.