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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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.
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!
It’s ok bro, I have faith you can do it no homo support hug.
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.
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
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
Is it time to fork piefed or am I out of the loop?
The tree of a code repository must be refreshed, from time to time, with the commits of forks.
You mean backporting?
I think anarchist nexus are already running a fork, aren’t they?
Interesting, any info about where they hang around?
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
Wow, talk about a self-implosion.
I, for one, would love to see an example of the “harassment” I engaged in.
this can be read as a threat lol.
Powerful image though.
How can I participate in the next big harassment campaign? Do I get paid in Yuan? Ruble? Can I get it via Xi JinPIX?
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.
