- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- 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
I’m new around here and I must say you guys enjoy your drama.
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.
All sides of the fediverse agree unanimously that Rimu is a piece of shit.
Piefed as a software was always hipster pop. People gravitated towards it because it was new, it’s not Lemmy and it tries to be everything. Some features are genuinely good and others aren’t implemented in Lemmy for logical reasons. Anyway, point is, the people that create pop tend to be superficial and not want to rock any boats. It’s unsurprising that he’d want to create a silo of confirmation bias. But I’m biased because I want my threadiverse experience to be full of people with differing opinions, stances and lifestyles.
That said, I also don’t think brigading helps, even when they’re baited. Inadvertently or not. Everyone’s own mental health should remain the priority.
My piefed account wasn’t loading. Now I wonder if I was blocked my I rarely have an opinion about anything to be banned at all
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When you aren’t popular enough to make the list :(
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.
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.
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.
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.
You’ve yet to post 17000~ more comments to reach Cowbee.
Damn, he do be posting.
Less than I used to, actually.
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.
Me too lol, their mistake I guess 😆
What am I a joke??
Under the radar, yet close to the sun.
Git gud scrub
Such powerful harassment as this ^ is how I was able to so masterfully reach ban status ☺
takes notes furiously
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.
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.
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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.
@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.
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.
@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.
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.
Good thing Piefed is very anti-authoritarian :)
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.
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.
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.
Lol what’s his problem with cm0002? That user was shilling hard for piefed when it came out. Was it just his account spamming?
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.
In his own words.
“Waah waaaah, the modlogs are unfair becuase they can be used to libel innocent people, I’ll even patch my software so my server hides nasty things people say about me”
A few moments later…
“Harasser, Harasser, all of you are harassers! None of you is free of sin!”
Offering to talk to resolve his grievances and apologising for any unintended offence is now harassment? :bc_rollingeyes:
Welcome to the club
Hopefully when @manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml runs the poll in ~5 months db0 and quokk have better showings than previously.
Apparently me thinking its a simple thing with no real downside to just be fine with the change, and not seeing the problem - also harassment.
<insert-also-jail-meme>
“Orchestrated a coordinated harassment campaign.” That’s quite a claim; where’s the evidence?
Their response would probably involve a combination of deflecting, discrediting you, attacking you, and doubling down on their warped perceived reality.
The only thing I ever did was post screenshots of his own statements and evidence that he was either actively lying or being a confused old man.
It’s difficult enough to get 20+ people to agree on anything. Like what toppings on a pizza order. Much less a targeted smear campaign.
orchestrated just means lots of people were doing it apparently lol
The evidence is that whenever news about Rimu being terrible comes out or Piefed’s terrible decisions as a platform come to light, I sometimes criticize Rimu and/or Piefed.
Probably hasn’t pulled it out of his ass yet.
See the
harassment-compose.yamlfile.
Damn, once again I’m left out 😔
You’re not making enough waves, friendo
Cowbee is a saint. How dare
That’s sweet, thanks!
Hahahaha, oh wait you’re serious.
Why do people do the “fake laugh then act surprised” bit? I don’t think it’s a secret that for as many people that hate me, quite a few like me too, and that’s part of why some people hate me very much like Rimu here.
While I do think you have sealiony behaviour sometimes (which is why some people dislike you, not everyone is like rimu), “harassing” is just not something you do.
I disagree about the sealioning bit, but I can agree to disagree there. When I mean some people like PJ and Rimu, I mean people that specifically hate me, which is usually just frustration from being unable to get a rhetorical win over me or provoke me into crashing out (like PJ did).
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Hahahaha, oh wait you’re serious.
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Of course. Go.
Already there chud.
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Gotcha, seems this method of Rimu telling other admins to ban people he doesn’t like is why Blahaj.Zone and feddit.org banned me around the same time as Piefed.social. Very fun to see where both of those instances stand.
Blahaj was literally the first instance that mass blocked people for wrongthink (newly appointed instant PTB mod banning everyone left of him) after reddit exodus.
Makes sense. With Hexbear.net as an explicitly queer leftist instance, and the leftist instances in general being very LGBTQIA+ friendly, blahaj tends to attract those to the right of leftist instances, ie liberals.
ah yes people would only do this if it was coordinated. Couldn’t possibly be any of my actions
PTB, he banned me for screenshotting the public group chat.
That’s understandable, the truth is his enemy.
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.
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.
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
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.
