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.

  • Wren@lemmy.today
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    2 months 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.

  • Aspis@lemy.lol
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    2 months 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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    2 months 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?

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • nothx [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      what’s with this desperate cry for attention from him lately?

      Not enough people are patting him on the back for being the lead dev of yet another fediverse Reddit clone. So now he’s forcing people to recognize he is the supreme ruler of his little corner of the fediverse.

      Piefed, more like Piefief.

    • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Like everyone during their evangelical/liberal phase, he has a massive ego and believes he must be the most morally correct and ethical person and everyone that disagrees with him on absolutely anything must know that he is correct and is just trying to bring him and others back down to the tar pits because they can’t stand seeing such a shining beacon of light and morality.

      This is always exacerbated by people specifically on crusades, like someone that hatefucked an entire fucking piece of software into existence because he hated the idea people were more progressive than him because they were more well-read and informed than he was capable of making himself, and certainly more than he was himself when he formed his political opinions.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        Having gone through something very similar to this myself, ‘round about 15 years ago -> Fuckin’ yyyyup.

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months 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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      “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!”

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      2 months ago

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

    • 𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.auOP
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      2 months ago

      Offering to talk to resolve his grievances and apologising for any unintended offence is now harassment? :bc_rollingeyes:

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Oh my god the lolcowery continues.

    This is just embarassing.

    … See this is where it becomes highly obvious that if you sent this person like a physical, ‘Power Tripping Bastard’ award, a 3d printed statuette or medallion or something, they’d just continue to lose their shit in a more extreme way.

    Like in a roundabout way… dude literally needs help, and I feel bad for him. Very much needs to touch grass for a couple of months, take a vacation from the internet, get those cortisol levels back to reasonable.

  • lyrial@anarchist.nexus
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    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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      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.)

      • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months 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?

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          2 months ago

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

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            2 months ago

            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.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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            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.