this post was submitted on 16 Apr 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?
@recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca
2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
instance ban
3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
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4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
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5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
@recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca felt the need to act on Lemmy.world's behalf and follow their instance ban, with their own. Trying to paint critcism of the Fedihosting Foundation as 'trolling' and that I am a bad faith poster despite being 100% and authentic in everything I do and never once using Bad Faith. I've never even once had a post or comment on lemmy.ca require moderation, and had only ever contributed with useful posts to the TIL or Music comm.

Overall a rather shameful display from an otherwise upstanding instance and clear sign of this being a targeted move as it's now the 4th instance ban in 2 days despite never receiving one prior.

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[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

PTB. I really hate when instances decide to ban someone just because another instance has done so. And I hate when people are called "trolls" just because people disagree with their opinions. If you post something in good faith, you're not a "troll." Even if it annoys people.

Cowards.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

PTB. That is such a mild comment for an instance ban.

[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

That too across instances!

[–] marighost@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago

I'm not familiar at all with the Fedihosting situation to comment on that but @Deceptichum@quokk.au , I only ever see you posting in good faith. They should moderate based on their own modlog/history, not another instance's.

[–] randomname@lemmy.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Welcome to my world. Just get another account and ignore the ban entirely. Heck, you’ve banned me before and I clearly have no respect for your authority.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hahaha I appreciate the sass and anarchist attitude.

Maybe I’ll start an account on MultiVerse.

[–] randomname@lemmy.org 6 points 1 week ago

Just come over to .org, where you can mass produce accounts with no email and let them cook for a while so no one knows they’re fresh.

Fuck the moderators.

100% justified, fuck these shitlibs (yeah im calling you shitlibs lemmy.ca feel free to ban me if you're that offended)

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

Holy PTB. It seems we have reddit and spez in fediverse. We made it 🎉🎉

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

PTB. I wonder if @recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca went rogue or if the other admins approve of this. Someone should message other admins like @otter@lemmy.ca or @mp3@lemmy.ca to find out for sure. It's possible if they went rogue and were just doing whatever they could be removed which would be best for everyone involved.

[–] Domino@quokk.au 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wonder if they can see the post from a blocked user? They might not get your @‘s

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago

Nope Lemmy refuses all acknowledgement of the existence of site banned users including replies to their comments or posts. Although in delicate situations where I know they could get them I either don't annotate them or add them in as edits later to prevent pinging.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The lemmy.world-adjacent perm bans continue I see, personally I post my music to hexbear.net/c/music, clear PTB at play

[–] Sunshine@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago

This mod decision is a mistake. Heavy handed given the situation.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today -2 points 1 week ago

This is like watching a bank robber get pulled over for a broken tail light.