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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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
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.
I’m new around here and I must say you guys enjoy your drama.
Yeah, the difference between Lemmy and reddit is banning everyone doesn’t really mean anything.
All sides of the fediverse agree unanimously that Rimu is a piece of shit.
I stopped looking for maybe an hour? And now I’m seeing several posts about mass bannings, some peoole talkig abojt someone who is anti-anarchist/anti-marxist, some problem with the Lemmy devs… and I don’t know what’s going on at all lol
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 RIMUBro, when do i get my ban?
Ditto. I don’t want to say things about my past here, because I was really bad at times. But. for my first instance ban ever, I want to earn a ban.
the people i recognize on the list are anarchists
y0kai, unruffled, db0, stamets, quokka
what is happening here
@rimu@piefed.social seems to going on a crusade against anyone who calls him out on his atrocious behavior. Either that or he just hates anarchists.
To clarify, a bunch of Marxists are on this list too. Rimu is on a crusade against Marxists and anarchists, essentially anyone calling Rimu and Piefed out.
Based on the whole vibe of Piefed loudly announcing itself by coming on the scene and saying “We are like Lemmy but without all those shitty TANKIES so you can feel safe” as if that was a primary issue makes me Zero percent surprised by this development.
I am not saying you have to agree with the politics of the Lemmy devs, rather it is the shallowness of the Piefed brand as “the fediverse but more centrist/rightwing and without those SUPER ANNOYING TANKIES” that should have given everyone more pause before they jumped on the bandwagon even if you have had bad experiences in authoritarian “left” spaces and were legitimately seeking that experience.
as if that was a primary issue
For some it is.
my shitposting game has been weak lately. disappointed in myself for not making it into the list.
Hey it looks like another round is starting, so it’s anyone’s guess!
Same, I wanna be in the cool kids club lol
But I might not actually have any activity on the instance… was piefed forked? I can’t remember.
Removed by mod
Rimu is the creator of piefed? Glad I never switched, then! The Lemmy devs are certainly problematic in their own way, but piefed seems particularly heavy-handed in its censorship and banning.
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.
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 don’t think an additional post would be helpful, but it seems I’ve been banned from feddit.online as well.
Which I’m not even sure if I’ve ever been on?
Same happened to me.
https://piefed.ca/comment/4659715
Seems to be from that post by rimu that @sunshine@piefed.ca shared here
Nah, mine was from earlier, but at the sameish time across 3 instances. I presume the same course happened, Rimu wanted me banned and pushed others to follow suit (and some agreed).
Lines up with rimus call to other instances to rid them of these unmentionables
He’s been pushing very hard that his rules should be applied everywhere, and it’s why I lost all trust in Piefed. I went from being interested in switching to it to immediately disinterested, I’m not sure what he’s coded in there that has personal interest to him. Yeah I disagree with people on the internet, but that’s a server admin’s personal decision, not something he gets to make for other admins.
It’s been extremely clear rimus goals for the fediverse from the beginning with the blog post they did outlining how social media should be.
I’m not sure what he’s coded in there that has personal interest to him.
They seem to be wanting to build the next everything app in the fediverse. Built along how they feel social media should be. While also focusing power up towards the admin
Example: their discussions on growing communities
https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/
PieFed gives admins a suite of tools to take a more hands-on approach to gardening all the communities on their instance. It does this by ignoring the community divisions and instead treating all posts and accounts as a big pool of things to be managed. Of course there are solid community moderation tools available but I will not be focusing on them in this blog post.
In summary all the worst parts of reddit on the fediverse
Yup, saw that after I posted the screenshot.
Who is being targeted for harassment now? I think its the people who are being posted about and being lied about, personally.
Everyone but the ones causing the actual issues. Like now with rimu and before lemmy.world admins and mods
Shame on Rimu. They clearly shouldn’t be in any position of authority.
Well his claim of stepping away from public interactions latest as long as expected
A new record of maybe 24 hours?
Was thinking more like 12hr
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.
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
