Rimu Mass Bans Users
(midwest.social)
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Ye Power Trippin' BastardsWhich 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.
Rimu's also banned people who never interact with Piefed.social like myself simply if people like PugJesus make harassment posts about them (which feddit.org and blahaj.zone followed through with too). This is more blatant as it's even less targeted and includes people I've never seen break any rules, like Edie.
From MeanwhileOnGrad, against me:
::: spoiler ableism, misgendering
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Lol, you're like one of the chillest and least unhinged posters on fedi.
Thanks! I try to be more chill, people being at each other's throats isn't very productive for learning so I try to balance it out. It does go to show that those opposed to leftists will despise you no matter how you treat them or others if you're consistent.
Ah cool, siding with PugJesus, one of the most obsessively weird and hostile online bullies I've seen.. I honestly just assumed they were a long-gone weirdo, but apparently they're still doing their thing.
If it isn't already, this method of moderating inevitably ends up with your instance being full of nazis. Piefed.social not looking to have a happy future.
Yea, a lot of non-fascists join Piefed.social because it's the Dev instance, especially because Piefed is so heavily promoted on Reddit, but over time people tend to leave to better instances if they don't agree with Rimu and his gang of bullies.
that's sad to hear about blahaj... have you talked wiht ada about it?
Nah, I don't even use blahaj.zone communities so it isn't too big of a deal. It was a full instance ban. As for Ada, I assume if I got banned, it's because Blahaj.zone agreed with permabanning me, though they haven't permabanned others that have done the same as me, just ones PugJesus and Rimu seem to hate in particular.
It kinda sucks because I usually use my blahaj account to interact with the larger fediverse which means I don't see your informative replies...
Yep, that's the biggest downside to being banned, if anyone on Lemmy.blahaj.zone goes to Lemmy.ml they won't see what I post there (or anywhere). I try not to tell people how to run their instances and whatnot, if they decide their red line is defending the communist interpretation of historical tragedies from liberal historiography then me getting banned is a matter of time anyways.
It's just important for those instance-shopping to know where blahaj stands on these subjects, ie against communists and for liberals.
That sounds like a win for Blahaj.
Honestly all you ever do is copy-paste propaganda text and defend states violently suppressing civilians because you try to claim they were secretly all CIA Nazis or defending Russia invading Ukraine because NATO exists so it's fair that civilians die. You personally are probably one of the worst things about .ml.
Let's not start slapfights in this thread please. Keep things in-scope.
Well can you tell them to stop talking shit about Blahaj? I’m sick of always having to censor myself for tankies when they never return the favour.
I don't believe this is an honest assessment of me at all.
For starters, I don't think it's necessary for me to hand-craft a unique response to common, low-effort arguments against socialism or socialist states. If I have addressed an argument before, I find where I've responded to it before and frequently copy and paste, as I believe quality responses are more effective than unique ones.
Secondly, on the topic of "propaganda." In that what I am trying to do is create more communists and communist sympathizers, I definitely fall into the category of propagandist. I focus on direct conversations with individuals, rather than many individuals at a more shallow and easy to grasp level. This doesn't mean what I say isn't factual or based in solid logical reasoning, however.
Third, the idea that I defend "states violently suppressing civilians because you try to claim they were secretly all CIA Nazis or defending Russia invading Ukraine because NATO exists so it’s fair that civilians die." This is, frankly, horseshit. I'd like to see examples, because I definitely have shown evidence from a myriad of sources for genuine lynchings of Jews and communists by Nazis that the Red Army stopped, and I've never tried to say the deaths of civilians is justified because NATO exists. I've explained the origins of the Russo-Ukrainain war as it traces back to the 2014 Banderite coup, and the ethnic repressions in the Donbass region kickstarting a civil war, but I've never justified the deaths of civilians, much the opposite.
If I'm "personally probably one of the worst things about .ml," then I shudder to imagine what you believe to be good.
I'm asking you both now to drop this. Stop shit talking blahaj and engaging in slap-fights. This is not in-scope in this comm.
Extreme PTB. This is bad, especially after seeing how rimu tried to malign dbzer0 recently. Very ban-happy behaviour from the piefed admin.
I would like to know what I did that constitutes harassment. I'm pretty sure I just got banned for being in the threads.
I think most people in that list have the same question. This is a clear "If you're not with me, you're against me" move.
All Cats
@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.
"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! "
Careful, he'll ban you too.
O noes
I am hepless
😂
oh no here you go
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?
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.
Yyyyyyep
He is dragging down credibility of any instance that runs Piefed
No one who runs Piefed had credibility to begin with, it's a tantrum in software form, developed for the sole purpose of owning the tankies
Soooo hes killed piefed with consistently idiotic behaviour. (I'm being kind here)
Hopefully the fork takes off and saves the project.
PTB
Remind me again why y’all have piefed instances?
I think it was largely people reactively hating on the Lemmy devs. People were claiming Lemmy's developers would push opinionated changes to the codebase and ruin Lemmy. Funny and ironic that this problem happened to piefed instead, and @rimu@piefed.social was the one we needed to worry about in the first place.
::: spoiler and where did that bring you
back to me...
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People were claiming Lemmy’s developers would push opinionated changes to the codebase
I don't know. But it's gotten to the point that I don't trust any piefed instances anymore at all. Rimu pushed a piece of code into Piefed a few days ago specifically to silence criticism against him and to silently delete/block posts on Piefed. He is exerting such an extreme amount of control onto the entire platform itself that I cannot trust the platform itself.
Every piefed instance, as far as I'm concerned at this point, comes with an enormous asterisk.
a few days ago
Uhuh.
I’m sure there was another piece of code specifically designed to silence leftists a few days ago, given it’s the entire purpose of piefed, but it’s not like this is a surprise?
Easily modified code base?
Lemmy is open source and doesn’t have ableist function names, but ydy
ableist function names
Which ones? Not coming to PieFed's defense [1], just want to bask in yet another PieFed L, and I'm not personally that tapped in when it comes to the actual code in Lemmy and PieFed.
[1] Don't pay attention to the software my instance is running lol, I just wanted anarchist.nexus in my domain name to make my anarchism completely obvious 😆
I’ll bask in knowing that Mia knew exactly what I meant at least.
Quokk.au used to be Lemmy, I tried changing some text on a page once it was near impossible with how obscurificated everything was across multiple files. With PieFed and Python I'm able to easily change large parts and can understand the project so much easier.
Lemmy feels more like an enterprise level app, whereas PieFed feels like something you can run on your home server and hack away at.
I run Lemmy on a home server no prob. I've been able to hack away at the UI in the past without much issue. Idk. Once you know where things are, its not that hard.
On my list of least favorite languages, Python is number 2, right after English.
When you aren't popular enough to make the list :(
What am I a joke??
Me too lol, their mistake I guess 😆
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.
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
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.)
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.
Hah nerd!
Good thing Piefed is very anti-authoritarian :)
what's with this desperate cry for attention from him lately? why can't he just go back to being the person nobody fucking remembers until he breaks something in Piefed again?
what's with this desperate cry for attention from him lately?
Not enough people are patting him on the back for being the lead dev of yet another fediverse Reddit clone. So now he’s forcing people to recognize he is the supreme ruler of his little corner of the fediverse.
Piefed, more like Piefief.
Like everyone during their evangelical/liberal phase, he has a massive ego and believes he must be the most morally correct and ethical person and everyone that disagrees with him on absolutely anything must know that he is correct and is just trying to bring him and others back down to the tar pits because they can't stand seeing such a shining beacon of light and morality.
This is always exacerbated by people specifically on crusades, like someone that hatefucked an entire fucking piece of software into existence because he hated the idea people were more progressive than him because they were more well-read and informed than he was capable of making himself, and certainly more than he was himself when he formed his political opinions.
why would the liberal ban so many liberals?
Them's fighting words...
Alas, yes, PTB.
While any given instance can freely ban people for whatever reason, making reasons up is always gone to be PTB.
If they'd just said they didn't like the people and didn't want them around? Shitty, but only PTB on a technicality, in that that's something an admin shouldn't use as criteria. Yeah, I know that seems fucking weird, but there is a degree of personal choice when running an instance. Nobody has to let in people they don't like. On a small instance, it wouldn't matter.
But on that instance, it matters. If you're going to play the heavy on a flagship instance, you've got a higher standard to meet. If that's not in your capabilities, you shouldn't be running a main instance. Foist that work off to someone temperamentally inclined to not screw the pooch. But if you're going to be pulling that kind of thing, be honest. Don't make up bullshit reasons, it destroys your credibility and shows that you are, indeed, in it for the power fantasy to some degree or another.
Say what you want about the names on that list as members of the fediverse at large, but half of those names are well known to not abuse power, and the more recognizable ones sure as hell aren't organizing any harassment. Even if only because they're recognizable. They'd be smart enough to create a random account unconnected to their main ones.
So, yeah, PTB and full of malarkey
PTB, he banned me for screenshotting the public group chat.
That’s understandable, the truth is his enemy.
In his own words.
"Waah waaaah, the modlogs are unfair becuase they can be used to libel innocent people, I'll even patch my software so my server hides nasty things people say about me"
A few moments later...
"Harasser, Harasser, all of you are harassers! None of you is free of sin!"
Gotcha, seems this method of Rimu telling other admins to ban people he doesn't like is why Blahaj.Zone and feddit.org banned me around the same time as Piefed.social. Very fun to see where both of those instances stand.
Blahaj was literally the first instance that mass blocked people for wrongthink (newly appointed instant PTB mod banning everyone left of him) after reddit exodus.
Makes sense. With Hexbear.net as an explicitly queer leftist instance, and the leftist instances in general being very LGBTQIA+ friendly, blahaj tends to attract those to the right of leftist instances, ie liberals.
Damn, once again I'm left out 😔
You're not making enough waves, friendo
Cowbee is a saint. How dare
That's sweet, thanks!
Hahahaha, oh wait you’re serious.
Why do people do the "fake laugh then act surprised" bit? I don't think it's a secret that for as many people that hate me, quite a few like me too, and that's part of why some people hate me very much like Rimu here.
While I do think you have sealiony behaviour sometimes (which is why some people dislike you, not everyone is like rimu), "harassing" is just not something you do.
I disagree about the sealioning bit, but I can agree to disagree there. When I mean some people like PJ and Rimu, I mean people that specifically hate me, which is usually just frustration from being unable to get a rhetorical win over me or provoke me into crashing out (like PJ did).
Go back to piefed
Hahahaha, oh wait you’re serious.
Of course. Go.
Already there chud.
Good. Right back at ya.
Offering to talk to resolve his grievances and apologising for any unintended offence is now harassment? :bc_rollingeyes:
Welcome to the club
Hopefully when @manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml runs the poll in ~5 months db0 and quokk have better showings than previously.
“Orchestrated a coordinated harassment campaign.” That’s quite a claim; where’s the evidence?
The evidence is that whenever news about Rimu being terrible comes out or Piefed's terrible decisions as a platform come to light, I sometimes criticize Rimu and/or Piefed.
Probably hasn't pulled it out of his ass yet.
orchestrated just means lots of people were doing it apparently lol
The only thing I ever did was post screenshots of his own statements and evidence that he was either actively lying or being a confused old man.
See the harassment-compose.yaml file.
It's difficult enough to get 20+ people to agree on anything. Like what toppings on a pizza order. Much less a targeted smear campaign.
and lemmy.ml people and dbzer0 people getting together? for a harassment campaign? I challenge you to make them agree.
To be fair, dbzer0 and Lemmy.ml are not entirely at odds. Many users are on good terms.
Their response would probably involve a combination of deflecting, discrediting you, attacking you, and doubling down on their warped perceived reality.
Those users are probably going to end up in a banned list hardcoded in the program.
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.
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.
He made an anti-yanks filter that just targeted anyone from the country of anti-yanks VPN
It's a Belgium filter, it alerts Rimu if anyone from Belgium joins.
That's hilarious, lmao
A belgium filter is even better
Now hold on, maybe he has a point..
He made an anti-cm0002 filter.
extremely rare absolute W for Rimu
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.
I'm sure admins aren't going to be thrilled about Rimu using his power to ban users on their server without their consent.
an anti-cm0002 filter
Critical support
I wish I could be added to a piefed hard coded ban list :3
There's a good chance they're going to see this post and prepare a second list, all the best!
Not gonna lie, I'm pretty sure at least 2 of those names have been featured on PTB before.
This place if rife with powermods.
Rimu needs to be the first person since Conner O'Malley to be criminally convicted for being weird. Rimu, why do you choose to be this person?
Well but Rimu is actually doing the work of creating the New Digital Language we so sorely need.
Fediverse courts need to convict Rimu of weird moderator actions that are not normal.
Put a fork in it, folks, it's done
A fork is right utensil to eat pavlova with.
https://codeberg.org/quokkau/PyLova
Having a normal one…
