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- fediverse@lemmy.world
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- fediverse@lemmy.ml
- fediverse@lemmy.world
Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
Mass instance bans
Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
Done
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.
He has abused the modlog to claim ‘harassment’, which I have never engaged in. I have not even interacted with Rimu in any way for days prior to getting kicked from the PieFed developer Matrix channels.
He has decided to mass ban 20 users because they have spoken out against his erratic and hostile behaviour as of late.
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when you’re modding on piefed but you’re a reddit mod at heart
When you aren’t popular enough to make the list :(
I’m out here posting commie shit every day and getting into fights about it. But occasionally I take a peek at MoG and I’ve never seen my name there, it’s always just Cowbee this and Cowbee that. Now I don’t even make the blocklist.
What am I, chopped liver?
I do think it’s funny just how much vitriol I seem to get, and I mostly stick to Lemmy.ml anyways.
They loathe you because they can’t dismiss you without doing a bunch of reading they otherwise wouldnt do
I tend to agree. If I were more aggressive, then it’s easy to dismiss me as a troll, but I deliberately choose not to do that.
I’m pretty sure any interaction you and I have had was about as luke warm as yesterday’s tea, and I think even that would be more heated than any interaction ive had with rimu. I think I once commented about someones preferred pronouns not being used? Eh, whatever.
Apparently I’m wayyyy more ban worthy than you.
Edit: I want a sticker to commemorate this event.
Edit 2: Oh, and for the record I think it was something like “they prefer x”, and you replied with “whoops, let me correct”. I don’t want to imply it was some sort of negative interaction and give folks the wrong impression.
I’ll be honest, I don’t really recall, which probably is in part because it was likely such a lukewarm interaction in the first place.
Pretty much exactly that
I honestly wonder if they ignore me because I’m meaner. But who knows what goes on in their heads.
I suspect it too, I frequently have to revise my comments to tone them down before posting (and even after) because I know confrontation just turns people off of productive discussion, but I think this causes cognitive dissonance in some rather extreme reactionaries. Few people mildly dislike me, it seems either varying degrees of neutrality or positive views, or otherwise extreme hatred. Just what I’ve noticed.
Honestly it’s probably the amount of text. A few of the people who got banned are dyed in the wool multi-paragraph to full book of text posters. Cowbee and Staments being the absolute gods of this.
I bet that list is just a stack ranked list of numbers of words in threads they didn’t like, and Rimu just banned line the top 50.
No one has ever accused me of not posting walls of texts before 🤣
I think you’re right about it being about a specific thread though.
You’ve yet to post 17000~ more comments to reach Cowbee.
Damn, he do be posting.
Less than I used to, actually.
Same, I mean c’mon I was clearly popular enough to get a .world instance ban but not enough for piefed.social 3:
It’s possible he’ll add more people from threads in YPTB. He’s insecure like that, he probably stalks our instance to see if we’re saying bad things about him.
Well, i got missed in the first round, so
FUCK RIMU.
This is just like the time Rimu sent me all those unsolicited butthole pics 😔
Edit: /s
Yeah from the inclusion of people like edie and exclusion of people like kittenzrulz I’d assume he just looked at who participated in the threads from a bad instance and banned accordingly
So, what you’re saying is that I have a chance to be one of the cool kids and get banned by posting “gfy rimu”?
Yeah, for best chances though you’ll have to make your own threads, since he banned dbzer0 and a lot of people talking shit about him.
Hmmm. Sounds like effort and I don’t have much of that to spare, especially on someone like that.
What am I a joke??
Me too lol, their mistake I guess 😆
Iso@lemy.lol is the former admin of lemy.lol. It’s also a bit odd because Piefed.social defederated from lemy.lol over their logo and Iso has told Rimu to go fuck himself a few times over it. The fact that he decided to block him here and now is telling because it proves its a personal hitlist and not coordinated harassment as he wants to claim. Otherwise, why wasn’t he blocked prior? And even then, why block an account now from a defederated instance?
That’s really funny. Probably means rimu is maintaining a personal shit-list and decided to just copy-paste it to piefeds banlist.
I think this is accurate, and I believe based on the evidence Rimu is sharing it with other instance admins to try to push a universal ban list.
It’s sounding like Rimu turned his personal block list into an instance ban.
I’ve got no other explanation for why he’s banning users that he has already defederated from. The only way he could be coralling that list is if he’s looking at stuff from another instance and attempting to control the narrative for other admins.
Getting triggered over a pepe in 2026 is almost as cringe as posting a pepe in 2026.
Git gud scrub
Such powerful harassment as this ^ is how I was able to so masterfully reach ban status ☺
And here I am writing multiple paragraphs discussing the value of a minimal harm strategy to get my ban. I, myself, need to ‘git gud’ it seems.
takes notes furiously
Under the radar, yet close to the sun.
Apparently all it takes it crossposting.
Hah nerd!
The only thing I’ve ever said to him was pushing back against his criticism with screenshots of evidence that proved him wrong.
He is not removing people for a coordinated harassment campaign. He is removing people to silence dissent and exert a stranglehold on his platform and his own ego.
PTB is, quite literally, not strong enough. He is an active danger to the entire fediverse as a whole. He is dragging down credibility of any instance that runs Piefed and has proven that not only is he a manchild incapable of regulating his own emotions and ego.
Piefed has become Chernobyl levels of radioactive. You can keep running a Piefed instance but you better expect questions on why you’re helping to further this narcissistic psychopaths control and influence.
It’s also kind of strange that Iso@lemy.lol is on that list. They’re a former admin of lemy.lol who had beef with Rimu but Rimu defederated from lemy.lol a while ago over their logo. The fact that he’s banning that user in amongst all the others kind of proves that this is a personal hitlist and not harassment. Otherwise, why are you banning a user that you’ve defederated from?
He is dragging down credibility of any instance that runs Piefed
No one who runs Piefed had credibility to begin with, it’s a tantrum in software form, developed for the sole purpose of owning the tankies
Piefed has become Chernobyl levels of radioactive. You can keep running a Piefed instance but you better expect questions on why you’re helping to further this narcissistic psychopaths control and influence.
Yyyyyyep
Haha….hahahaha….hahahahahahahahaha
Have you seen the developers of Lemmy? You want to talk about radioactive and furthering narcissistic psychopaths.
It’s just part and parcel of what’s created. Doesn’t mean we subscribe to what they believe in, just the software.
There’s most likely parts of Linux that are merged from tankies, communists, terfs, bigots and all other manners of people you don’t agree with. Are you gonna stop using that. No, it’s functional, open source software
Show me a crashout this bad from the lemmy devs over being called mean names and other instances moderation practices.
Imagine the reaction if the “tankie” devs put in a default blocklist of the libbest instances, or default domain blocklist of 3000 entries you’d have to unblock one-by-one or had any piece of lemmy vibecoded or made a “harrasment” blacklist (in the original sense of the word) and shared it publicly… Like you can directly compare the nutomic reaction to being called a transphobe to rimus reaction to him thinking he has been called one…
Or imagine a tankie version of mog that had yesteryears drama threads still pinned, or an instance admin who’s dedicated mission was reposting stuff from the bad instances using their many many alts in order to starve them out of interaction
Have you seen the developers of Lemmy?
Yes I have, they’ve said + done some problematic things. If that was a constant, ongoing and current pattern of behaviour, I’d be agreeing that running Lemmy instances would be a questionable pursuit.
There’s most likely parts of Linux that are merged from … people you don’t agree with.
Running an instance on Piefed isn’t like being a user. It’s the equivalent of running whole servers using a problematic Linux distro. And yes, I will and have stopped running Linux distros on servers, both personally and at work, due to problematic ownership over the distros.
If someone started running all their servers on a distro with shitty verbiage in it, whose developer kept hardcoding all their personal vendettas into it while using their authority over the project to ban users and side with people adjacent to fascists, I would (quite rightfully) question them about it. I would also doubt their beliefs.
“Whatabout the other guy” don’t care didn’t ask
Nope just pointing out that it’s a pointless schoolyard squabble. You can take the drama off of Reddit but it’s still gonna be here it seems. Started with tankies, moved here. I just laugh at it all. I’ll keep enjoying my content and popcorn.
Show me a crashout this bad from the lemmy devs over being called mean names and other instances moderation practices.
show it to me. link it.
You replied with your own quote.
🍿🍿🍿
ye and you got nothing but some zingers to back your arguments up
No you weren’t
I have had many conversations with people all across the fediverse, and I do not believe that I have been banned by anyone for my existence in a thread aside from rimu doing that just now.
And you can feel free to see what my comments in that thread were. Do any of them come across as inflammatory?
Lemmy devs have also said some pretty damn problematic things, and despite my commenting on them in the past, I have yet to have a bad interaction with those very same folks.
It would seem rimu is taking things to a level far beyond what the fediverse has seen so far.
So, I’ll be seeing if there is anything I can do for pievolution instead.
Edit: sorry, I did have another interaction, where rimu made claims about llm use that were clearly made up and I commented as much. Rimu then replied with “why was it on me to report about it then”, to which I said “because its literally nothing so no one cares”.
So I’m assuming that plus my very existence in the other thread was the trigger.
I’m new around here and I must say you guys enjoy your drama.
@Rimu@piefed.social has completely destroyed his reputation by this point, and likely has thoroughly destroyed public perception of piefed. He is continuing to prove he is exactly the threat people have said the Lemmy devs will be.
@Rimu@piefed.social has completely destroyed his reputation
well, everywhere except his own spaces, because he’s carefully curated those to only be filled with sycophantic losers.
It’s ironic because he’s so concerned about the Lemmy devs. I know I’ve personally called out nutomic before, and we had a respectful conversation, but ended up disagreeing. Rimu does it shamelessly and without respect and then expects everyone to sing his praises afterwards after he forces his perception on everyone else.
As some rando who considered piefed due to the problematic Lemmy devs, I agree. The stuff I’ve read about it has turned me off of it, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.
You could always come to Mbin instead. I’m glad the worst controversy we’ve had was kbin’s lead dev’s early reactions and actions towards the Mbin fork. Which is hardly relevant anymore.
Hi. Admin of lemy.lol here who is also on that list.
I have made 5 comments in total and have not commented in the matrix channels. I have also made a single comment about Rimu. This.
Rimu is incapable of handling basic criticism. If an admin is such a threat that a single comment about him constitutes a ‘coordinated harassment campaign’, then Rimu and Piefed.social must be defederated en masse. We at lemy.lol would do so if he didn’t defederate from us over his perception of a frog.
A bit off-topic, but Pepe does raise my hackles, and has for the last dozen years, ever since #gamergate. Ex-Groypers will see it as an invitation to a Nazi bar.
Given how ubiquitous Pepe is as a template for emotes in places like Twitch, I argue that Pepe was taken back by the gamers as a mascot.
Now, because gamers are gamers I also don’t fault anyone having reactive doubts about usage of Pepe. But I don’t think those doubts are license to action without some burden of proof.
Posting frogs itself means nothing. The content of the frogs means everything, including dogwhistles. He’s not a dogwhistle himself anymore, just with exceptions to that rule, like the specific groyper one.
He has been granted the title of having reasonable innocent use, but he has not been extended the rank of not having problematic associations.
That’s why you’ve got to use Pepe while being vehemently woke, to make it clear bigots aren’t tolerated
my shitposting game has been weak lately. disappointed in myself for not making it into the list.
This confirms everything I said about piefed months ago. I even made a piefed account and brought up concerns, only to be told the “anti-tankie” controls were for everyone’s own good.
Sucks to suck.
I believe I may have said I thought the concerns were outsized. And if I had, clearly I was wrong.
similar spot. seems like mbin has won the race for “least problematic threadiverse software” by simply not setting itself completely on fire
I’ll be candid, I forgot kbin & mbin existed for a moment there.
Which maybe is a positive for their use?
I thought it went the way of mbin for a bit honestly. Or just confused then mixed them up in which is still being worked on
Have to be honest… I’m not sure which is active either.
Edit: mbin is active
I honestly thought kbin was the replacement. Now realizing that’s silly thinking k before m
I thought piefed was bad news when I first read their document on tools for upholding healthy communities where they defended the idea of a karma system. Skavau very adamantly defends it claiming it’s not a Karma system while describing everything wrong with Reddit’s Karma system as if it’s somehow a good thing. I’m not really glad that I’m right, this situation is awful. I am glad though that more people are seeing it for what it is, and hopefully will stop endorsing piefed so openly.
this can be read as a threat lol.
Powerful image though.Since this is the fediverse, and we are up against some crazy shit, as far as this picture goes, I say “Hail Hydra.”
Yeah, but do we want to be read as harassers?
I follow the disengagement rule as soon as I am requested to. Doesn’t “ML” instances do raids/agit spams?iirc hexbear has had a ‘disengage’ rule since before even dbzer0
Doesn’t “ML” instances do raids/agit spams?
not as far as i’m aware; i moderate on !slop@hexbear.net, which is for all reactionary content and even has a rule against going after federated instance mods/admins. lemmy content is a small fraction of the content posted there and when it is posted, half the time there’s going to be someone complaining in the comment section about how they don’t care about other instances at all
obviously cross-posting something will get people who want to comment engaged, but people cross-post things on the fediverse all the time, it’s kind of the point of a platform like this
also the meme image i posted was just a joke, people are always throwing around accusations about other posters being alts and yeah they’re all alts, my alts!
- Thank you for answering.
- I am aware you were joking. But be aware how it reads to folks traumatized by harassment. Within the context of this thread, I immediately comprehended it was ragebait. But others not as literate and nuanced, may read this as “I‘ll make as many alts as I want until Rimu relents to our demands!”
- Wild to read someone read/experienced うみねこのなく頃に.
Wild to read someone read/experienced うみねこのなく頃に.
beatrice is iconic, i definitely relate to her a bit
I only know her, because my wife asks me to play 黄金夢想曲†CROSS, much to my
If Rimu was banning people over personally targeting him that would be a valid concern. He isn’t. Making new accounts to spread counter-programming to his userbase is not harassing him. It’s only harassment if one makes accounts specifically to contact him.
That’s weird, none of these memes are telling me to read settlers, disappointed in you.
here ya go https://readsettlers.org/
you should read it!
I did, I even read it again when I saw the meme! I didn’t rub it in anyone’s face so I don’t think I’m a socialist tho.
Did the 3rd read make you communist or is it when you start smugly beating people over the head with you reading list? I prefer sci-fi fantasy.
i mean you did kind ask for it this time.
i was an anarchist long before i read settlers, it didn’t really change my politics, just heightened my distaste for the united states
sci fi and fantasy is fine, i also like trashy stuff on ao3 and visual novels
I know I know, it’s especially a dick move to bait you into the response, I’m being a jerk! God I hate the US.
Being online via Lemmy caused me not one, but 2 mental collapses (I’m fine now, diagnosed with bipolar and have meds now) so I decided to give PieFed a shot, since I get bored on “fedi” (I hate that name for the Misskey forks). The promise of better features faster seemed amazing (politics of Lemmy devs aside). I’ve been around since the very first day of the Reddit API fiasco, and despite this 2 week-old account, I’ve been around the block. The age of this account is not coincidental. Thankfully, the FAF exposed Rimu’s bullshit so I decided to start fresh yet again with the FAF (I’m already an anarchist, so why not?) due to this inexcusable drama stirring.
My biggest hope is that the AN fork of PieFed is deployed soon and properly maintained, because Rimu has changed from “dev making a new product with easy contributions” to “perhaps the biggest authoritarian threat to the threadiverse driven by sycophants” in a matter of weeks.
Rimu has banned some of the largest voices on the platform with this fell-swoop. This entire thing likely deserves its own static website in order to document what’s going on, because people on the flagship PieFed instance are never likely to see it. I may do this just because this is worse more than many realize, I think. We collectively saw threads dot net happening and basically all of the threadiverse defederated due to obvious foreseeable issues.
This reminds me of that guy that was DM’ing people with a ban every time they used the word “bro” but on a much larger and more influential scale. We aren’t talking about a mod (that was on piefed btw, I think he made his own instance) now, but an entire development effort that can deeply harm not only this platform, but the very idea of this platform as a whole.
In short,
FUCK RIMUthe people i recognize on the list are anarchists
y0kai, unruffled, db0, stamets, quokka
what is happening here
Good thing Piefed is very anti-authoritarian :)
Rimu’s also banned people who never interact with Piefed.social like myself simply if people like PugJesus make harassment posts about them (which feddit.org and blahaj.zone followed through with too). This is more blatant as it’s even less targeted and includes people I’ve never seen break any rules, like Edie.
From MeanwhileOnGrad, against me:
ableism, misgendering
Ah cool, siding with PugJesus, one of the most obsessively weird and hostile online bullies I’ve seen… I honestly just assumed they were a long-gone weirdo, but apparently they’re still doing their thing.
If it isn’t already, this method of moderating inevitably ends up with your instance being full of nazis. Piefed.social not looking to have a happy future.
Yea, a lot of non-fascists join Piefed.social because it’s the Dev instance, especially because Piefed is so heavily promoted on Reddit, but over time people tend to leave to better instances if they don’t agree with Rimu and his gang of bullies.
Lol, you’re like one of the chillest and least unhinged posters on fedi.
Thanks! I try to be more chill, people being at each other’s throats isn’t very productive for learning so I try to balance it out. It does go to show that those opposed to leftists will despise you no matter how you treat them or others if you’re consistent.
that’s sad to hear about blahaj… have you talked wiht ada about it?
Nah, I don’t even use blahaj.zone communities so it isn’t too big of a deal. It was a full instance ban. As for Ada, I assume if I got banned, it’s because Blahaj.zone agreed with permabanning me, though they haven’t permabanned others that have done the same as me, just ones PugJesus and Rimu seem to hate in particular.
It kinda sucks because I usually use my blahaj account to interact with the larger fediverse which means I don’t see your informative replies…
Yep, that’s the biggest downside to being banned, if anyone on Lemmy.blahaj.zone goes to Lemmy.ml they won’t see what I post there (or anywhere). I try not to tell people how to run their instances and whatnot, if they decide their red line is defending the communist interpretation of historical tragedies from liberal historiography then me getting banned is a matter of time anyways.
It’s just important for those instance-shopping to know where blahaj stands on these subjects, ie against communists and for liberals.
That sounds like a win for Blahaj.
Honestly all you ever do is copy-paste propaganda text and defend states violently suppressing civilians because you try to claim they were secretly all CIA Nazis or defending Russia invading Ukraine because NATO exists so it’s fair that civilians die. You personally are probably one of the worst things about .ml.
Let’s not start slapfights in this thread please. Keep things in-scope.
Well can you tell them to stop talking shit about Blahaj? I’m sick of always having to censor myself for tankies when they never return the favour.
If copy and paste is the only thing required to dismantle your tired red scare bullshit then that’s 100% your fault, get new material
You see, they’re are allowed to shit talk safe spaces, people aren’t allowed to defend themselves from the people who shit talk and invade safe spaces. That’s only fair. Queers can’t stand up for themselves, that’s liberalism.
I don’t believe this is an honest assessment of me at all.
For starters, I don’t think it’s necessary for me to hand-craft a unique response to common, low-effort arguments against socialism or socialist states. If I have addressed an argument before, I find where I’ve responded to it before and frequently copy and paste, as I believe quality responses are more effective than unique ones.
Secondly, on the topic of “propaganda.” In that what I am trying to do is create more communists and communist sympathizers, I definitely fall into the category of propagandist. I focus on direct conversations with individuals, rather than many individuals at a more shallow and easy to grasp level. This doesn’t mean what I say isn’t factual or based in solid logical reasoning, however.
Third, the idea that I defend “states violently suppressing civilians because you try to claim they were secretly all CIA Nazis or defending Russia invading Ukraine because NATO exists so it’s fair that civilians die.” This is, frankly, horseshit. I’d like to see examples, because I definitely have shown evidence from a myriad of sources for genuine lynchings of Jews and communists by Nazis that the Red Army stopped, and I’ve never tried to say the deaths of civilians is justified because NATO exists. I’ve explained the origins of the Russo-Ukrainain war as it traces back to the 2014 Banderite coup, and the ethnic repressions in the Donbass region kickstarting a civil war, but I’ve never justified the deaths of civilians, much the opposite.
If I’m “personally probably one of the worst things about .ml,” then I shudder to imagine what you believe to be good.
I’m asking you both now to drop this. Stop shit talking blahaj and engaging in slap-fights. This is not in-scope in this comm.
Those users are probably going to end up in a banned list hardcoded in the program.
Well, he already admitted that guardrails should have been put up on lemmy to prevent memes from taking root. So why not put up guardrails for users he doesn’t like?
Oh wait.
He did.
He made an anti-cm0002 filter.
He made an anti-yanks filter that just targeted anyone from the country of anti-yanks VPN
It’s a Belgium filter, it alerts Rimu if anyone from Belgium joins.
A belgium filter is even better
Now hold on, maybe he has a point…
That’s hilarious, lmao
If there’s two things I hate, it’s admin over reach on social platforms, and Belgians
same, but make it three things for me. I also hate stepping in water on the bathroom floor while I’m wearing socks. that’s the worst.
one sec, adding that to lemmy right now
an anti-cm0002 filter
Critical support
I’m sorry but genuienly, the last time I saw this kind of behavior was like, two decades ago, Garrys Mod RP communities SteamID banning people from other RP communties in their game mode scripts.
This is just literally petulant child behavior.
Lol what’s his problem with cm0002? That user was shilling hard for piefed when it came out. Was it just his account spamming?
He made an anti-cm0002 filter.
That’s a surprise. Figured he’d add features for them to help his crusade against ml.
Or they just posted too many memes?
Anti-cm0002 filter means that you can’t filter cm0002 when on piefed. Going by the logic.
He made an anti-cm0002 filter.
extremely rare absolute W for Rimu
No. It isn’t. Because adding in a filter for a single user is extremely fucking problematic and should be left up to admins to ban or users to block.
I’m sure admins aren’t going to be thrilled about Rimu using his power to ban users on their server without their consent.
As much as I hate memes, trying to prevent them is dumb.
Which is funny because people have said Lemmy’s devs would do the same thing in regards to putting stuff into Lemmy. It’s also stupid because anyone who cares can make a new account with a different username on another server, or on their same server to bypass that.
I wish I could be added to a piefed hard coded ban list :3
There’s a good chance they’re going to see this post and prepare a second list, all the best!
Honestly that’s why I’m replying to this. I feel like it’ll be a badge of honor to get added to Rimu’s hardcoded ban list.
I will personally find it funny if that happened, so that I get to pump up my codeberg numbers with pylova and pievolution code to just remove the list
(Does codeberg even have that sort of activity stuff? I mostly live on my personally hosted repos at this point, I just think it would be funny)
Not gonna lie, I’m pretty sure at least 2 of those names have been featured on PTB before.
This place if rife with powermods.
