this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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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:
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
- Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
Rules
- Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
- Don’t deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
- Don’t harass mods or brigade comms. Don’t word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
- You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
- If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.
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.
YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
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Any tool can be used in many ways, but overall the trend that I see in PieFed is to place more power into the hands of the individual users rather than force administrators or community moderators or developers to have to do every little thing. Even right down to the choice of implementation language being Python rather than Rust, which shifts the balance downwards allowing more people to control their own instances rather than have to rely upon the developers, and facilitates user contributions to the codebase.
Of course instance admins should control their own instances - it's their hardware after all, bought and paid for, and with their effort more than simply money - and similarly moderators their communities. I am just speaking to the overall trends (the overall balance being shifted more towards users on PieFed, compared to Lemmy and Reddit) that I have seen, but am open to feedback if others see differently? I should note that PieFed is relatively much newer than Lemmy, despite how features keep being added weekly, so e.g. if PieFed lacks a feature such as notifications for being banned, I would likely chalk it up to it simply being so new, rather than a deliberate choice not to bother with such, which the administrative practices observed on lemmy.ml lends me to believe is the case for Lemmy.
Wow, thanks for the details. I never dove into it that deep. Great write-up!