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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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Aaaaaaand I just got banned from NOT one, NOT two, NOT three, but four Lemmy.ml communities. Is this a sign I have to start studying and reading up on theory?

Also, I know some Lemmy.ml mods is gonna say that "you wouldn't get banned from these communities had you read your theory!" like they're teachers demanding students to eat their meat before they can have their pudding (because how can you have your pudding when you don't eat your meat?)

Now I support the idea of socialism (I'm more of a market socialist), and I'm NOT against the idea of actually existing socialist countries (ie: China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and the DPRK). That said, I think Lemmy.ml should be more open to different forms of socialism, as well as the Marxist Leninists who DOESN'T have to support Stalin (and his bureaucratic and polarizing practices while General Secretary of the CPSU) to support ML.

I am very bummed that I CAN'T respond in these communities - that said, I can subscribe to different versions of these communities that happened to be in different Lemmy instances (other than Lemmy.ml):

Socialism:

!socialism@beehaw.org

!actualsocialism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!actualsocialism101@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!socialist@lemmy.world

Privacy:

!privacy@lemmy.world

Memes:

!memes@hexbear.net

!linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Lemmy support:

Someone should make another Lemmy support community here in this instance

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[–] Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

.ml is a clown show. Block it- and their members and enjoy the peace and quiet of mature discussion on lemmy.

[–] Emopunker@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I told you so. A lot of your comments come across as sealioning.

Lemmy.ml tends to be very strict though and often uses the terminology of their rules very loosely to ban people.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (32 children)

No, that looks like an admin ban from the instance. You're banned from lemmy.ml entirely.

When you get instance banned, the modlog will simply show bans from communities you've posted in from that instance. If you try to post to a lemmy.ml community now, it won't federate out. It's actually a really broken system that can cause problems.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

.ml is essentially Lemmy's /r/conservative as far as censorship, propaganda, mod power trips, and sub-zero IQ levels go.

Avoid at all costs. Block the instance. Life is too short to waste on basement dwellers.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Would you consider Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism (basically ML but with Stalin's views in them) as the right wing of communism?

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have instance blocked lemmy.ml for more than a year now and it makes my internet life seriously better. You don't need to read more theory OP, you need to get rid of assholes in your life.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about reading up on socialist/communist theory? I still have a lot to learn as a socialist.

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Read as much as you can, but don't limit yourself to a specific theory, it will make you narrow-minded. That's an advice I can give after 20 years of being a critical thinking adult.

Regarding Lemmy: I would not want to be part of a group that bans me, because I haven't "read enough theory".

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does RedSails have anything by Daniel De Leon?

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

I think you may have answered to the wrong comment

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

.ml isn't tolerant towards other ideologies or beliefs. If it isn't full-throated support for authoritarian regimes, then it's considered a bannable offense, even if you support actual socialism or communism. Note that your ban was very likely from the admins themselves, as the moderators hardly do any banning there compared to Dessalines and Davel.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well still Lemmy.ml staff are very very strict - I'm very glad I'm posting in this Lemmy instance (lemmy.dbzer0.com).

[–] Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

.ml staff are entire assholes. They’re cowards that want to live in a walled garden. Just let them.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cowardly. They can't handle dissent, so they ban you for challenging their ideas. There's only one acceptable position there, and that's being a full-throated tankie who professes that authoritarian regimes and the atrocities they commit are A-OK as long as they're opposed to the West while doing so.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm NOT against AES countries. Does that make me a tankie by proxy?

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Nope. You're only a tankie if you blindly support authoritarian regimes and refuse to acknowledge the atrocities they commit. As an example, denying the Tiananmen Square massacre, denying human rights abuses and horrid living conditions in North Korea, or supporting Russia in its invasion and attempted genocide of Ukraine and its people.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you more of a libertarian socialist or council communist?

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know what either of those mean, I don't delve much into theory. I want billionaires and shareholders to not exist, for workers to run the businesses they work for instead of making shareholders rich off their labour, and for taxes to go towards education, healthcare and social benefits instead of military spending and excessive police funding. I wouldn't be sad if capitalism as a whole died, frankly. It's done enough damage.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you more of a social democrat?

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I guess you could say that? If it means that we aren't being slaves to an "upper class" for their benefit only while they fuck us all over, then yes.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

I'd go with pathetic.

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