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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.
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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).
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- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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Agreed. Having been the object of a shit ton of harassment myself (along with doxx threats, death threats), I don't like the dogpiling.
I find it very ironic that many of the people who are bitching about being on this list, are some of the exact same people who fucking joined in on an old post saying I should be banned from the entire fediverse!! Just because I fucking voted third party and post news articles they don't like. 🤣 🤣
Patrick should have been more open about the list for sure. But I don't really hate on him for having the list. There are actually several instances that have me on a default ban list (Hi, Piefed and the other instances that have me pre-banned). People who are new to signing up on those have no idea that they can't see me.
So a lot of the posts about this tesseract subject drip with hypocrisy.
I'm on the list too, but I'm not gonna fucking send him DMs threatening him. That kind of toxic reaction is what drove him to do it in the first place.
I'm all for making light fun of the issue, but the threats are fucking uncalled for.
Nah fam.
This isn't an instance banlist. This is an attempt - and for god knows how long an incredibly successful one given the interface's previous popularity- to control who sees what globally in instances that they have no association with or authority over. This is some insanely high level trojan horse shit trying to dictate the entire fediverse, all based on their personal fee fees and they're utterly unrepentant about it
Which sucks. But it's no reason to harass or threaten someone's life over it. This is a fucking social media site. It shouldn't be a life and death thing based on what someone posts. I stand by what I said.
People need to calm the fuck down. Yeah, it was bad. He got called out on it. It looks like he quit and deleted everything now. Cool!
But to threaten someone's life over fucking Lemmy shit is insane (if that really happened).
Who's threatening? I've been all over threads as this unfolded (slow weekend), i haven't see any threats outside of "may his path be strewn with legos".
Not to say it's outside the real of possibility - this is the internet after all - but consider where that claim came from. Who is the source. And...i'm gonna ask for proof considering the violent hyperbole they've demonstrated over and over and over....
I'm assuming DM's. I received threats of harm in my DMs, and KYS messages back in the day on here for posting news articles from Newseek. So I can totally believe there are plenty of unhinged Lemmys on here who would do that to him.
Having said that though, he has a very very large victim complex. He also seems to be pretty dishonest in some of the things he does.
I read just now that his goodbye messages page had a DDOS attack virus in it that specifically attacked this dbzer0 instance. So Imm not really feeling sorry for the asshole.
But IF he received death threats, that's not cool at all.
Yo this is completely unrelated to anything going on, I just looked at your profile and saw that you link to the Socialist Workers Party's Mastodon and wanted to warn you that they are pretty fucking Zionist. Look at some of their articles on themilitant.com about Pissrael for instance: https://themilitant.com/2023/11/25/defend-israels-right-to-exist-call-for-cease-fire-is-support-for-hamas-2/
I don't agree with all of their views. But I support their worker's rights views enough to support them. I totally understand why you wouldn't agree, but this is how I look at it. I'm already so disliked over most of Lemmy anyway, that it doesn't really matter that much here. Thanks!
You support zionists? And these are really aggressive ones too... I mean if that's not the sign of a captured movement then it sure is a sign of movement that is willing to roll over as soon as empire says so
I don’t support or subscribe to all of its positions. I agree with its views on workers’ rights, unions, and class issues, and I value their labor coverage. That does not mean I adopt the party’s positions on Israel, Palestine, or every political issue.
My own views should be judged by what I actually say, not assigned to me through association with one publication or news articles that I may post.
I do not identify as a Zionist. Agreement on SWP's workers’ rights should not be treated as automatic agreement on unrelated foreign-policy issues. I try to stay out of foreign-policy debates. It doesn't interest me that much. Please move on.
I'm not pointing my finger at you, I'm trying to understand why you'd be supporting a movement that's by all signs of it captured?? That's what I can't understand.
"Yeah they have some questionable views about genocide but they're pretty good about unions" is a baffling take to me. What do you hope they can accomplish?
You replied before I finished my edit (for clarity) of my previous response, so I'm copying it here:
I don’t support or subscribe to all of its positions. I agree with its views on workers’ rights, unions, and class issues, and I value their labor coverage. That does not mean I adopt the party’s positions on Israel, Palestine, or every political issue.
My own views should be judged by what I actually say, not assigned to me through association with one publication or news articles that I may post.
I do not identify as a Zionist. Agreement on SWP’s workers’ rights should not be treated as automatic agreement on unrelated foreign-policy issues. I try to stay out of foreign-policy debates. It doesn’t interest me that much. Please move on.
EDIT: But thanks for pointing out where some of the confusion may come from, so I've updated the sidebar of the community.
I'm not talking about your views, I'm asking what you hope a captured movement can accomplish?
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