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.

  • Aspis@lemy.lol
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    17 days ago

    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.

  • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    How can I participate in the next big harassment campaign? Do I get paid in Yuan? Ruble? Can I get it via Xi JinPIX?

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    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.

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    17 days ago

    Extreme PTB. This is bad, especially after seeing how rimu tried to malign dbzer0 recently. Very ban-happy behaviour from the piefed admin.

  • Wren@lemmy.today
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    17 days ago

    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.

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    16 days ago

    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 RIMU

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      17 days ago

      “Orchestrated a coordinated harassment campaign.” That’s quite a claim; where’s the evidence?

      • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        17 days ago

        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.

    • ISO@lemmy.zip
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      17 days ago

      Is my name on the list?
      Yes Sir
      Sh…
      Oh, but it actually has a different surname
      Phew

      You see, surnames are important. With them, you get a working fedilink, instead of a broken one.

      (I don’t care about the drama. I just saw users getting caught by this bug.)

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        17 days ago

        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?

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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          17 days ago

          That’s really funny. Probably means rimu is maintaining a personal shit-list and decided to just copy-paste it to piefeds banlist.

    • 𝓜𝓲𝓪@quokk.auOP
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      17 days ago

      Just hours ago he asked other admins to ban us, resulting in feddit.online following him and both of them abusing the modlog to claim I am harassing him.

      I do not view this as distancing himself, but expanding what he is doing and recruiting others to continue to target us.

      Likewise I reached out days ago to initiate dialogue and was met with being kicked from all Matrix channels and instance banned from .social.

      Removing an old post where many people disagreed with him means nothing to me while he continues to engage in this childish behaviour.

      I’m sorry, but I can no longer see this being resolved as long as Rimu continues to act as antagonistic, dismissive, and immature as he has been.