Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

@rimu@piefed.social

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.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    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

    • Soot [any]@hexbear.net
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      21 days ago

      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.

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        21 days ago

        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.

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        21 days ago

        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.

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        21 days ago

        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.

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          21 days ago

          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…

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            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.

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              21 days ago

              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.

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                21 days ago

                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

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                21 days ago

                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.

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                  21 days ago

                  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.

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                    I’m fine to not engage in slap fights, and I’m not trying to shit-talk blahaj. If the other user indeed drops it, or is given a timeout if they continue, then I will stop. For clarity, I detest the transphobes that shit on Blahaj for respecting neopronouns and have no problems with them on that basis. I know the anti-Blahaj crowd is usually like that and I want no association with them, and I don’t even consider myself anti-blahaj, I only mentioned them with respect to the possibility that Rimu is trying to propagate these blocklists with other instance admins.

              • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                19 days ago

                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.