There are some crazy power-tripping mods that will ban you for posting things in other communities.
This just creates more demand for communities and instances that don't do that.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 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:
- 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.
YPTB 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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I tried joining Piefed instead of Lemmy... Before even making a single comment I was banned from 3 communities for "Lemmy account with same username has been seen to start arguments on the Lemmy equivalent to this community"
Fucking thoughtcriming me
Piefed communities are creepy. It's a platform based on the concept of those dead duplicate communities trying to boycott the Lemmy devs.
The piefed communities that come across my feed are so curated and empty it's always just a mod fighting with every other comment.
Yeah, I was so excited about piefed when it first came out. But the thoughtcriming and social rating based on people disgreeing with you, took the shine off pretty quick.
You know as soon as you got on PieFed, the dev would hard code censoring you because you don't support liberalism.
Yep! I someone even mentioned that on the main piefed.social site, I was banned on there before I could even sign up and they had me on some "list." LMAO
Happens on lemmy as well.
Careful their PR team will come here to say why you are wrong on what the code does!
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That night be there antibot automation. You can appeal if it wasn't you. It's their current attempt to try to combat some AI bots that have been around on Lemmy.
They're automating assessments of user interactions on Lemmy as an anti-bot measure?
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Should be pretty easy to figure out the mod responsible, especially since it's across multiple instances.
Either way, I'm really not a fan of mods just banning someone from every single comm they mod. If you want to be an admin, make your own instance please.
It's very "reddit like" abuse of power behavior.
And is honestly something instance admins should be able to crack down on.
It's easy enough to defederate from instances that are toxic, but it's not so easy to do the same for individual communities that are mass owned by one or two people who abuse their power.
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Here's the mod who did all this btw:
What the fuck is even going on in this thread.
one or more bigots keep making lots of harassment accounts to attack draconic neo. they spam posts like this and the trans communities too with their shit
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No clue. I came in here thinking it was about one thing, then I see people arguing about different shit. lol
It's become so many different things it's wild.
- tor criticism
- troll campaign attacking db0 mod
- piefed pros and cons
- slap flights and insults
All I see is no VPN and an almost dead battery. No idea what the rest is about
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Lemmy has a real problem with alts and sock puppeting
To be fair, it's easy to see the problem on Lemmy. Every place has it but Reddit and the like make it difficult to notice.
Yeah, tho pretending any given account on reddit is a real person acting in good faith is ah… wishful thinking
Lemmy is terrible software for stopping bad actors. I feel like the devs designed it.
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Some mods have victim complex think if they shut down any dissenting voice they have achieved
It's like a dozen people that seem to fuel the dramatic arcs of the fediverse.
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For the record, I'm not transphobic, I'm not cisgender for sure... My kids is trans...
"Gee I wonder why Lemmy isn't more popular!"
Also, I have never interacted with most of those communities
This was a problem with Reddit that Lemmy never attempted to solve: you piss one person off (maybe not even through any fault of your own) and rather than just block you, they ban you from every community they moderate.
However, Reddit didn't really have a solution to that. Lemmy kind of does: you can make any community you want, and communities that pull crap like this might be avoided by users who don't tolerate that kind of thing. Or they might not, but the users have more power here.
One thing Reddit was good for was, one mod would make communities like, say, "iPhone 16," "iPhone 17," "iPhone 18," and so on up to like 50, and then lock them until that phone was announced. Same with game series, movie franchises etc. Then when people opened rival communities, they would brigade them, harass them, post things there with dummy accounts that would violate Reddit rules and get the community banned, stuff like that.
Lemmy isn't going to fix all of Reddit's problems because Lemmy is trying to be an alternative to Reddit, which means the more people Reddit pisses off, the more of them are going to end up here and most of them are going to do the same shit here that they did there. And until people show them that that behaviour will not be tolerated... they're just gonna keep doing it.
Lemmy communities need a "total blocked" counter so I can use the information to choose.
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