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).

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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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[–] 45 points 5 months ago (6 children)

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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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I believe I may have said I thought the concerns were outsized. And if I had, clearly I was wrong.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    similar spot. seems like mbin has won the race for "least problematic threadiverse software" by simply not setting itself completely on fire

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I'll be candid, I forgot kbin & mbin existed for a moment there.

    Which maybe is a positive for their use?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I thought it went the way of mbin for a bit honestly. Or just confused then mixed them up in which is still being worked on

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  • [–] 44 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    Soooo hes killed piefed with consistently idiotic behaviour. (I'm being kind here)

    Hopefully the fork takes off and saves the project.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Hopefully any popular fork unwinds its ActivityPub deviations and works with the greater fediverse community going forward.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    ActivityPub compatibility has never been a problem with Piefed, and in fact we are collaborating very well in private. Of course Lemmy doesnt yet support all the features that Piefed has, but thats not their fault.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Oh. Multiple times I’ve heard that it has unilaterally broken ActityPub rules, but I never investigated exactly how.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Not that I know of, but I also haven't tested Piefed nor followed the development closely.

    Recently there was a case where federation of Piefed Feeds was incompatible with Multi-communities in the Lemmy dev version. It would have taken me a lot of boilerplate code to make these compatible, for little or no benefit. Rimu agreed to change it on the Piefed side instead, much easier.

    A few days ago I read read about some blocking or hiding feature in Piefed that is incompatible with Lemmy. That might be inevitable if Lemmy simply doesn't support that feature. In the end there will always be some degree of incompatibility on the Fediverse, because every software has very different priorities.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for your work! By the way could you check this comment about compability. I would like to hear your opinion of this.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    While JSON-LD is part of the ActivityPub specification, Lemmy doesnt use it at all (and afaik neither do Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube etc). Instead Lemmy uses JSON and Piefed is probably the same. We do provide the JSON-LD definitions which that comment complains about, but they have also often been incomplete.

    Honestly I dont even know which Fediverse software uses JSON-LD. It doesnt seem useful to know "there is something called an Accept activity" when you dont have the UI logic to display them.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I was going to make a fork, governed by the users to ensure PTB features weren't present.

    Is there already a decent fork, to save me time?

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Pievolution is the AN fork if you want to go that route

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    A quick google turned up an agricultural consultancy in Malta. Do you have a link?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Is https://anarchist.nexus/ already using Pievolution? I wasn't sure since the footer still says Piefed. I'd rather use that than go back to Lemmy, it's just less feature rich unfortunately.

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  • [–] 41 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    "these people don't hide that they don't like me and since I have a tiny iota of power I'm gonna ban them! Grr I'm angy! >:[ see it has an actual reason, I'm not whining! "

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  • [–] 102 points 5 months ago (35 children)

    When you aren't popular enough to make the list :(

    🤣 2
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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    Same, I mean c'mon I was clearly popular enough to get a .world instance ban but not enough for piefed.social 3:

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    It's possible he'll add more people from threads in YPTB. He's insecure like that, he probably stalks our instance to see if we're saying bad things about him.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    So, what you're saying is that I have a chance to be one of the cool kids and get banned by posting "gfy rimu"?

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 5 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.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    I'm out here posting commie shit every day and getting into fights about it. But occasionally I take a peek at MoG and I've never seen my name there, it's always just Cowbee this and Cowbee that. Now I don't even make the blocklist.

    What am I, chopped liver?

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    I do think it's funny just how much vitriol I seem to get, and I mostly stick to Lemmy.ml anyways.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure any interaction you and I have had was about as luke warm as yesterday's tea, and I think even that would be more heated than any interaction ive had with rimu. I think I once commented about someones preferred pronouns not being used? Eh, whatever.

    Apparently I'm wayyyy more ban worthy than you.

    Edit: I want a sticker to commemorate this event.

    Edit 2: Oh, and for the record I think it was something like "they prefer x", and you replied with "whoops, let me correct". I don't want to imply it was some sort of negative interaction and give folks the wrong impression.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I honestly wonder if they ignore me because I'm meaner. But who knows what goes on in their heads.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly it's probably the amount of text. A few of the people who got banned are dyed in the wool multi-paragraph to full book of text posters. Cowbee and Staments being the absolute gods of this.

    I bet that list is just a stack ranked list of numbers of words in threads they didn't like, and Rimu just banned line the top 50.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    I suspect it too, I frequently have to revise my comments to tone them down before posting (and even after) because I know confrontation just turns people off of productive discussion, but I think this causes cognitive dissonance in some rather extreme reactionaries. Few people mildly dislike me, it seems either varying degrees of neutrality or positive views, or otherwise extreme hatred. Just what I've noticed.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Git gud scrub

    Such powerful harassment as this ^ is how I was able to so masterfully reach ban status ☺

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago

    Shame on Rimu. They clearly shouldn't be in any position of authority.

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  • [–] 85 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    @Rimu@piefed.social has completely destroyed his reputation by this point, and likely has thoroughly destroyed public perception of piefed. He is continuing to prove he is exactly the threat people have said the Lemmy devs will be.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    It's ironic because he's so concerned about the Lemmy devs. I know I've personally called out nutomic before, and we had a respectful conversation, but ended up disagreeing. Rimu does it shamelessly and without respect and then expects everyone to sing his praises afterwards after he forces his perception on everyone else.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    As some rando who considered piefed due to the problematic Lemmy devs, I agree. The stuff I've read about it has turned me off of it, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    You could always come to Mbin instead. I'm glad the worst controversy we've had was kbin's lead dev's early reactions and actions towards the Mbin fork. Which is hardly relevant anymore.

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  • [–] 53 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    Those users are probably going to end up in a banned list hardcoded in the program.

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  • [–] 46 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Well, he already admitted that guardrails should have been put up on lemmy to prevent memes from taking root. So why not put up guardrails for users he doesn't like?

    Oh wait.

    He did.

    He made an anti-cm0002 filter.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago*

    I'm sorry but genuienly, the last time I saw this kind of behavior was like, two decades ago, Garrys Mod RP communities SteamID banning people from other RP communties in their game mode scripts.

    This is just literally petulant child behavior.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    He made an anti-cm0002 filter.

    extremely rare absolute W for Rimu

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    No. It isn't. Because adding in a filter for a single user is extremely fucking problematic and should be left up to admins to ban or users to block.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I wish I could be added to a piefed hard coded ban list :3

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I will personally find it funny if that happened, so that I get to pump up my codeberg numbers with pylova and pievolution code to just remove the list

    (Does codeberg even have that sort of activity stuff? I mostly live on my personally hosted repos at this point, I just think it would be funny)

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  • Which is funny because people have said Lemmy's devs would do the same thing in regards to putting stuff into Lemmy. It's also stupid because anyone who cares can make a new account with a different username on another server, or on their same server to bypass that.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    I don't think an additional post would be helpful, but it seems I've been banned from feddit.online as well.

    image

    Which I'm not even sure if I've ever been on?

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    Lines up with rimus call to other instances to rid them of these unmentionables

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    the people i recognize on the list are anarchists

    y0kai, unruffled, db0, stamets, quokka

    what is happening here

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    @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.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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