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Rimu Mass Bans Users (quokk.au)

submitted 3 days ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

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[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 11 points 2 days ago

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

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 day 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

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 days ago

Everyone but the ones causing the actual issues. Like now with rimu and before lemmy.world admins and mods

this post was submitted on 14 May 2026

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
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.

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PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.

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