Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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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.

Posting Guidelines

All posts should follow this basic structure:

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.

Rules

Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
Don’t deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
Don’t harass mods or brigade comms. Don’t word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.

Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.

Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.

Some acronyms you might see.

PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
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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(Minor) Post asking for feedback on potential slowness on LW (where 36% of the Lemmy users are located) is removed from [email protected] as a "support question" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Okay, this is definitely a minor case, but probably still worth reporting.

Modlog is here, 17 hours ago: https://lemmy.world/modlog/3106

Link to the post content reposted on [email protected]: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36299751

That question is useful for most of the people, as LW hosts 36% of the users base, and most of the active communities (https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active). Removing it as a support question seems questionable.

The most curious thing is that I investigated a bit, as LW still allows to show which mod performed which action (that how things worked in 0.19.3), and that removal has been performed by a mod that literally hasn't performed any action in 6 months: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=45389

Not wanting to put a tinfoil hat, but it's still curious to me that that specific mod came out from a 5-months inactivity just to remove that one post highlighting potential issues with LW.

What do you all think?

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[–] A_A 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The longer time goes on the more it seems like they are actively working to hide their problems to keep a stranglehold on users.

L.W admins are not profiting, they work for very little money, as i understand. They have troubles with the site and have been considering to drop it a few months ago.

My guess is that the protocol is heavy and since they have the largest instance there are bottlenecks.
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[–] Rooki 7 points 1 week ago

We had never the intention to drop the website. We do not profit at all ( only if you "profit" from online shame and harassment ). I even donate myself to the platform and ocasionally to other open source federated software.

We all are human and arent perfect and cant track everything and all things. Lemmy devs ocasionally ignore us because "big instance bad" and the instability in their recent releases and lack of testing LW is 5 or 6 versions now back? Because we dont want to rush and if we make a wrong step with upgrading it causes a blackout on lemmy. Additionally we have some tweaks that we want to backport when we upgrade, that moderation doesnt get hurt by upgrading.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

L.W admins are not profiting, they work for very little money, as i understand.

This is every instance admin though. They don't get a pass because they have a shitload of users. If anything the responsibility is even greater as one of the "flagship" instances. If they are unable to handle it then something needs to change.

They have troubles with the site and have been considering to drop it a few months ago.

I'm not really concerned with what the "official" excuses are as I find L.W staff to be untrustworthy. I haven't seen them talk about shutting L.W down but that sounds like a scare tactic to me. My personal opinion is that the fediverse doesn't need large instances in the first place though so I am obviously biased here.

My guess is that the protocol is heavy and since they have the largest instance there are bottlenecks.

Lemmy is a giant database that throws tantrums the more you add to it. As L.W is huge in terms of users and communities, I'm sure the demands on their hardware are very real. That doesn't change the fact that it isn't working correctly and sweeping genuine/good faith questions under the rug serves no purpose besides deception and ego protection.