- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
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- fediverse@lemmy.world
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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when you’re modding on piefed but you’re a reddit mod at heart
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.
I’m new around here and I must say you guys enjoy your drama.
Yeah, the difference between Lemmy and reddit is banning everyone doesn’t really mean anything.
Ah ok
Piefed as a software was always hipster pop. People gravitated towards it because it was new, it’s not Lemmy and it tries to be everything. Some features are genuinely good and others aren’t implemented in Lemmy for logical reasons. Anyway, point is, the people that create pop tend to be superficial and not want to rock any boats. It’s unsurprising that he’d want to create a silo of confirmation bias. But I’m biased because I want my threadiverse experience to be full of people with differing opinions, stances and lifestyles.
That said, I also don’t think brigading helps, even when they’re baited. Inadvertently or not. Everyone’s own mental health should remain the priority.
i think someone made the argument that it was insanely less demanding on servers though
Yeah, if you’ve prevented the majority of the threadiverse interacting with your server, it’ll of course be less demanding. 🥴
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.
My piefed account wasn’t loading. Now I wonder if I was blocked my I rarely have an opinion about anything to be banned at all
No the server is unreachable atm
Apparently urgent maintenance that needs at least a day to accommodate?
Wonder if they were hosting in the data center that caught fire a week or two ago and that requires downtime?
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/northc-data-center-outside-amsterdam-suffers-fire/
All sides of the fediverse agree unanimously that Rimu is a piece of shit.
Not all, .world, lemmy.ca, feddit all agree that Rimu is actually the good guy and anyone who has proof is making it up. They even claim the harassment the queer people get is faked by the queers themselves, according to a few key Feddit users.
Then let’s burn this mother fucker down.
POOKIE!
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.
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.
as if that was a primary issue
For some it is.
One of the piefed mods says they totally want to help resolve that. Wait no sorry they want to resolve why everyone is upset without changing anything
He probably hates leftists in general.
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.
That’s why you’ve got to use Pepe while being vehemently woke, to make it clear bigots aren’t tolerated
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!
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.
Removed by mod
@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.
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.
@Rimu@piefed.social has completely destroyed his reputation
well, everywhere except his own spaces, because he’s carefully curated those to only be filled with sycophantic losers.
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.
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.
The only thing I’ve ever said to him was pushing back against his criticism with screenshots of evidence that proved him wrong.
He is not removing people for a coordinated harassment campaign. He is removing people to silence dissent and exert a stranglehold on his platform and his own ego.
PTB is, quite literally, not strong enough. He is an active danger to the entire fediverse as a whole. He is dragging down credibility of any instance that runs Piefed and has proven that not only is he a manchild incapable of regulating his own emotions and ego.
Piefed has become Chernobyl levels of radioactive. You can keep running a Piefed instance but you better expect questions on why you’re helping to further this narcissistic psychopaths control and influence.
It’s also kind of strange that Iso@lemy.lol is on that list. They’re a former admin of lemy.lol who had beef with Rimu but Rimu defederated from lemy.lol a while ago over their logo. The fact that he’s banning that user in amongst all the others kind of proves that this is a personal hitlist and not harassment. Otherwise, why are you banning a user that you’ve defederated from?
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 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
Have to be honest… I’m not sure which is active either.
Edit: mbin is active
I honestly thought kbin was the replacement. Now realizing that’s silly thinking k before m
When you aren’t popular enough to make the list :(
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?
I do think it’s funny just how much vitriol I seem to get, and I mostly stick to Lemmy.ml anyways.
They loathe you because they can’t dismiss you without doing a bunch of reading they otherwise wouldnt do
I tend to agree. If I were more aggressive, then it’s easy to dismiss me as a troll, but I deliberately choose not to do that.
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.
I’ll be honest, I don’t really recall, which probably is in part because it was likely such a lukewarm interaction in the first place.
Pretty much exactly that
I honestly wonder if they ignore me because I’m meaner. But who knows what goes on in their heads.
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.
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.
No one has ever accused me of not posting walls of texts before 🤣
I think you’re right about it being about a specific thread though.
You’ve yet to post 17000~ more comments to reach Cowbee.
Damn, he do be posting.
Less than I used to, actually.
Same, I mean c’mon I was clearly popular enough to get a .world instance ban but not enough for piefed.social 3:
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.
Well, i got missed in the first round, so
FUCK RIMU.
This is just like the time Rimu sent me all those unsolicited butthole pics 😔
Edit: /s
Yeah from the inclusion of people like edie and exclusion of people like kittenzrulz I’d assume he just looked at who participated in the threads from a bad instance and banned accordingly
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”?
Yeah, for best chances though you’ll have to make your own threads, since he banned dbzer0 and a lot of people talking shit about him.
Hmmm. Sounds like effort and I don’t have much of that to spare, especially on someone like that.
Git gud scrub
Such powerful harassment as this ^ is how I was able to so masterfully reach ban status ☺
And here I am writing multiple paragraphs discussing the value of a minimal harm strategy to get my ban. I, myself, need to ‘git gud’ it seems.
takes notes furiously
Under the radar, yet close to the sun.
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?
That’s really funny. Probably means rimu is maintaining a personal shit-list and decided to just copy-paste it to piefeds banlist.
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.
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.
Getting triggered over a pepe in 2026 is almost as cringe as posting a pepe in 2026.
Me too lol, their mistake I guess 😆
Apparently all it takes it crossposting.
Hah nerd!
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.
