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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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I made a number of comments in the post. @Serinus@lemmy.world is now policing how many you are allowed to have.

Here is the Announcement thread in general, in case you are unaware.

Serinus also claims 'Misinformation' for these comments

Ding ding ding. Hexbear and other instances get consideration and talked about behind the scenes. Anarchist.nexus was defederated by MrKaplan privately without any consideration at all from other admins. Kaplan even went out of their way to contact admins of other instances to attempt to get them to defederate from anarchist.nexus as well. When pressed about the popularity of anarchist.nexus, Kaplan then said "I don't know how you define relatively large, on fedidb they're listed as having 71 monthly active users" which led to someone else saying "That's top 10 for Piefed servers, according to fedidb. It would be top 40 for lemmy. We aren't swimming in the pacific here on the Fediverse. This is a small pond to begin with." A small pond that MrKaplan desperately wants to be the only big fish in. # Lemmy.world is using their position to bully smaller communities.

This is not, in fact, misinformation. I listed the screenshots in another comment directly proving this as correct. Here is that screenshot.

Correct. Also, this is quite important, but MrKaplan didn't talk to anyone else about this either. There was an instant and knee jerk response by the admins for this but they took literal weeks to do absolutely nothing about Jordan while saying they were looking into it for weeks. They, quite clearly, have made priorities.

Also not misinformation. Here is the screenshot from Kaplan admitting they never messaged anyone.

Anything to say, Serinus?

Edit: Of course he doesn't. He just banned me for 'sealioning and harassment' for this YPTB post.

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[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 2 hours ago

I hear that in MJK's voice.

Seven one

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

If those assholes could go back Reddit I'd be so happy

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 hours ago

Pretty sure they think they're building the next reddit and once they get rid of the unmentionables it'll finally take off

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago

Well, they can.

Then problem is they aren't.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

And now they're banning people for just pointing out they're bullying others and other instances lol

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Absolutely perfectly stereotypical 'reddit mod' behavior.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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....

SerinusM

It’s mostly half a dozen very loud people who have a particular agenda.

The previously defederated instance has 165 total accounts, lifetime.

https://lemmy.world/comment/23371264

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That announcement thread simultaneously has a user freely and actively running hasbara about the Nakba.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 minutes ago

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.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 hours ago

LW doesn't see that as an issue though. It's what they want on the platform

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

As tired as I am of the drama, this is classic PTB! It's the perfect example of it!

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

3 years ago: "Oh neat, this instance seems to fit well for me "

Lately: Chuckles "I'm in danger!"

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] NooBoY@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

this deserves its own post wtf

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 20 hours ago

There's not really much I can prove, especially if I don't want to reveal much about my identity.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit, got any more info you can add?

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 15 hours ago

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...

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 17 hours ago

This is very disturbing.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

  1. That Kaplan/LW admins value individual users like themselves over the entirety of an instances users

  2. That Kaplan/LW admins are not willing to engage in the same type of reporting behavior that they ask others to do

  3. That Kaplan/LW admins will be taking nuclear options in order to bully smaller instances into bowing to what they want you to do

  4. 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.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 15 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] absolutetupperware@lemmy.today 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago

do they side with the tankie instances? it seems like they agree on alot of things besides who they support.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lath@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago

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! 👍

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 19 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

The aforementioned defederation decision is still pending.

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