I highly recommend starting or joining instances that support freedom of speech.
We can make sections of the fediverse that aren't just hug boxes for people with an agenda.
this post was submitted on 31 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.
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- 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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were you posting ai-generated modified images?
not all instances, and communities are ok with that. Some are openly hostile to anything ai
Probably because OP has been removing artists' names from comics he reposted
I’ve only read 3 of your replies here and I’d like to see you banned
I am ashamed to admit - I haven't worked at all.
I'm so sorry, I didn't realize we were supposed to be working! (Also, I am a ditch digger by trade, and alas, I see no way that my skills could be of service...)
And nothing of value was lost.
Go outside.
Nobody wants a lawless place. People don't want a place where there's an unjustified hierarchy (i.e. reddit admins, and squatting mods). In lemmy you anyone can make their own instance and start comms to replace badly run ones.
So what were you doing that preceded the ban? I see a political post in that community, when just a few days ago you posted here complaining that another one got removed: https://lemmus.org/post/21115763
And I see a bunch of removed comments under that removed post. I can't read any of them, so you tell us, what were you so innocently doing?
They did a "ban and remove", so the logs don't show what was removed.
With that being said, a scroll through your profile show a great many comments removed.
I don't think PTB, but I can't prove that.
they posted a "7 words you can’t say, then and now" meme. dunno what the words were tho, when the post was deleted the attached image was too.
Who said Lemmy is an anarchist place without rules?
anarchists do have rules, they just don't have hierarchies. the idea that anarchism is a free-for-all, do whatever you want ideology is capitalist propaganda. in a society built on the liberation of all people, you obviously need rules to protect the people from threats that would subjugate or harm them. in real world anarchist collectives, those rules are usually collectively arranged by the people, and in cases where people break those rules, they are adjudicated by groups of people elected or randomly chosen to work out who is in the wrong, and what punishment is suitable for them. yes, anarchists do have what most liberals would call a system of law and order.
for a good example of how anarchism works in practice, read up on the Zapatista. while they don't refer to themselves as anarchist, their day-to-day praxis is pretty anarcho-communist.
anarchists do have rules, they just don't have hierarchies. the idea that anarchism is a free-for-all, do whatever you want ideology is capitalist propaganda.
there are many "anarchisms" and some actually refuse rules.
some are clearly antisocial and nihilistic. That doesn't make it less anarchist.
Sure, people like ancaps exist. And there's naturally no authority on what anarchism is. But you won't find many leftists, anarchists or otherwise, who will associate themselves with people like that.
You can scream to the heavens that you're an anarchist all you want, but you can't make people accept that or humor you by also calling you one.
You can scream to the heavens that you're an anarchist all you want, but you can't make people accept that or humor you by also calling you one.
that's a strange occupation, to care about people calling you anarchist or not.
i know that nowadays people are more interested in what they're called, appropriated identities, labels and what not, but you really think that those unfrequentables will care about what you call them?
I don't recall saying I thought they would. You're the one who brought it up, so if you have questions about your own position, perhaps you should address them to a mirror.
mirror mirror on the wall,
who will have the last word on this stupid brawl?
Who said anarchists don’t have rules?
Anarchists don’t have rulers
even anarchists have rules lol
Nobody even said that those rules are more adequate :)
But still, most Lemmy communities have much fewer rules, so overall it is more comfortable here moderation-wise.
Vague ban messages mean modlog is almost as useless as reddit. Modlog isn't even useful at checking out your claims. Your attitude is defensive and agitated, but so would that of anyone posting here. Most comments just defend the status quo, or criticize you because of your attitude while not even minding theirs.
It is impossible to make an objective claim about your case, it's all "probably", except that one example from a previous post you made here where someone thinks they've gotcha'd when they refer to a previous instance where you've shitposted an edited image of negotiations with Iran that basically substitutes the Ayatollah's face with Trump's - a very shitposty thing to do.
Vague ban messages mean modlog is almost as useless as reddit.
worth noting that anonymous moderators is enabled by default too :/
fortunately, the fediverse has absolutely no safeguards against a sybil attack, so you can just make a new identity and ban evade.
Everyone here seems to ignore the facts that
- the reason given was "breaks community rules", but the community doesn't have rules and
- it was explicitly a shitpost community.
Maybe the mod was just accidentally writing "community" instead of "instance". (I didn't check what the offending content was.)
Except it does have rules and lists them in the sidebar, it is not a lawless community and they aren't trying to make one:
OP likely broke these rules. Either posting non-shitpost content, like news or politics, or untagged NSFW. We won't know which one if either of those is the reason the mod banned OP, and I wouldn't blame that mod for not wanting to respond here since this community tends to have a habit of harassing moderators.
Aren't those just the instance rules?
They're definitely listed as community rules. Here's a screenshot of the community page in Lemmy-UI:
They aren't exactly the same as lemmy.world Terms of service though it makes sense they would share similarities.