this post was submitted on 27 Jul 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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[–] ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 208 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

I don't understand how Patrick hiding a DDOS attack in his "goodbye" message isn't grounds for banning his alts on that server according to their policy. It literally is breaking the law in many countries

Edit: for that matter, .world should consider the same for his alts there

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

How many do you think he's got? I swear I just found one called Eristalis created a day ago lol

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 47 points 2 months ago

James R Kirk - he was posting like an impartial observer on Fediverse vs Disinformation @db0 in a breakdown of the ban list thread. Things like:

The dev posted a response in c/Tesseract but you're mostly correct. They wanted to make it easier for like minded future admins to be able to spin up a Lemmy instance without having to know all of the lore.

Then when people called him out he started becoming a frothing troll.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the dude saying how everyone who blew up over the shitlist was doing illegal shit is one too

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doing illegal shit is a requirement for being a human rights activist in the USA today.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I just think it's hilarious that instead of "saving" the fediverse they fractured it. Whiney bitches love to break shit then whine about it being broken.

[–] ProbablyUnwise@anarchist.nexus 75 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I would say they've brought the fediverse together like never before. I don't think this many people have agreed on a single thing in the history of fedi.

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 160 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] cm0002@lemy.lol 82 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean, does it really count as separate drama or a continuation of existing drama?

Continuation for sure.

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 152 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The whole "you violated our policy but we can't tell you how you violated it" thing has heavy big-tech gaslighting vibes.

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 91 points 2 months ago

It even has the "here is a link to the entirety of our policy" trope. Like com'on, bruh, this is actually making me angry just reading it regardless of context.
I loathe that sort of shit.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 118 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

That was my first instance. Turns out it's the star trek has gotten too woke kind of people running it?! Ah well, llap 🖖

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think they actually use star trek as a cover to find leftist and trans people to add the to their list

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 months ago

Report to your nearest Starfleet officer if you're aware of anyone queer or has communist sympathies, Admiral Patrick McCarthy needs your support to Make Lemmy Reddit Again

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 115 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

I made a single comment asking how someone can be anti-trans and a fascist boot licker but also a star trek fan.

Guess who I asked.

[–] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 months ago

Thanks for asking. I have the same questions!

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[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 84 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So when do instances start defederating startrek.website since they clearly want to be alone?

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 76 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lemy.lol has announced to defederate 30 minutes ago and is currently defederated.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 48 points 2 months ago

And much respect to them for how they handled this/themselves.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 71 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

tbf the prime directive clearly states 'open source devs have the right to embed obfuscated arbitary blocklists in their software without notyifying users, and DDOS anyone who points it out'

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 57 points 2 months ago

I guessed I'd be seeing something here with the bans and removals that started cropping up in that thread...

100% PTB. Just removing anyone who is pointing out that its related to tesseract, a total lie, etc.

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (17 children)

explicitly allows discussions about hurting people

Remember kids, wishing death upon mass murderers makes you just as bad as them actually.

Edit: to the coddled, enlightened brunchers incapable of reading the room, itching to have their righteous moment under my comment: next time the IDF starts randomly airstriking the shit out of my quaint little (Christian no less) town, I personally invite you to join me for coffee and contemplating mortality on my veranda. I’ll be so impressed by your opinion on the lives of the people who are dropping WAR ORDINANCE around you and consider me a terrorist because of where I’m from (and you one for sitting for coffee with me). It’ll be so inspiring. You’ll love it, I make decent coffee. Wouldn’t that be fun.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 months ago (5 children)
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[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Glad I already deleted my account there. And blocked the instance.

Shame, but I'd rather not be around members of a fandom that actively support shitty and shady practices like that, and I sure as FUCK don't want an admin that's complicit

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 months ago
[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 months ago

I'm not surprised. They were shit mods back on reddit and continue their shitty ways here in the fedi

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 49 points 2 months ago

I mean at least it is an instance doing the defederation and announcing it publicly (so people who don't like this can leave). This also makes a great example for people who don't understand the difference between banning lists in apps vs instances.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this the same Star Trek instance that had some huge drama with The Picard Manuever (? Maybe it was someone else?) that led to a user exodus? Or a different one?

[–] cm0002@lemy.lol 53 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Idk probably, the admins and mods over there are always power tripping about something.

There was also the whole Stamets writeup last year about their bs to

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 40 points 2 months ago (5 children)

God, Stamets must be sitting there giggling into their icecream rn. Canary in the coal mine

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No ice cream, alas. Wouldn't mind some though. But giggling? Yeah.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 2 months ago

Stamets! That’s who I was thinking of.

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[–] OnyxRex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Punishing the victims? really?

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[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Love it 🙄 Just deleted my account there, fuck those assholes.

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[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What an asshole

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm willing to bet he's an admin or mod on there 🤣

When I read the summary of the rant he made about "leaving" first thing I thought was "sure buddy". There's no way someone like that doesn't have at least one alt, if only for testing development of their program.

Who knows how bad the infestation is of alts.

You'd think they'd keep a lower profile after breaking a federal law in the country they're in.

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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And now the whole thread is deleted.

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