Rimu Mass Bans Users
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 (donโt 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.
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 ๐คฃ
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.
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.)
[email protected] 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 ๐
Under the radar, yet close to the sun.
Such powerful harassment as this ^ is how I was able to so masterfully reach ban status โบ
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
Apparently all it takes it crossposting.
Hah nerd!
@[email protected] 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.
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.
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.
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 [email protected] 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?
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!"
Offering to talk to resolve his grievances and apologising for any unintended offence is now harassment? :bc_rollingeyes:
Welcome to the club
Hopefully when @[email protected] runs the poll in ~5 months db0 and quokk have better showings than previously.
Apparently me thinking its a simple thing with no real downside to just be fine with the change, and not seeing the problem - also harassment.
โOrchestrated a coordinated harassment campaign.โ Thatโs quite a claim; whereโs the evidence?
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.
Their response would probably involve a combination of deflecting, discrediting you, attacking you, and doubling down on their warped perceived reality.
orchestrated just means lots of people were doing it apparently lol
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.
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.
See the
harassment-compose.yamlfile.Cowbee is a saint. How dare
That's sweet, thanks!
Hahahaha, oh wait youโre 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).
Hahahaha, oh wait youโre serious.
Of course. Go.
Already there chud.
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.
ah yes people would only do this if it was coordinated. Couldn't possibly be any of my actions
Those users are probably going to end up in a banned list hardcoded in the program.
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.
Critical support
I'm sorry but genuienly, the last time I saw this kind of behavior was like, two decades ago, Garrys Mod RP communities SteamID banning people from other RP communties in their game mode scripts.
This is just literally petulant child behavior.
That's a surprise. Figured he'd add features for them to help his crusade against ml.
Or they just posted too many memes?
Anti-cm0002 filter means that you can't filter cm0002 when on piefed. Going by the logic.
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.
As much as I hate memes, trying to prevent them is dumb.
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.
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.
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
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
PTB, he banned me for screenshotting the public group chat.
Thatโs understandable, the truth is his enemy.
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
:::
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.
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? Iโm 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 itโs 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.
If copy and paste is the only thing required to dismantle your tired red scare bullshit then that's 100% your fault, get new material
You see, they're are allowed to shit talk safe spaces, people aren't allowed to defend themselves from the people who shit talk and invade safe spaces. That's only fair. Queers can't stand up for themselves, that's liberalism.
Soooo hes killed piefed with consistently idiotic behaviour. (I'm being kind here)
Hopefully the fork takes off and saves the project.
Hopefully any popular fork unwinds its ActivityPub deviations and works with the greater fediverse community going forward.
ActivityPub compatibility has never been a problem with Piefed, and in fact we are collaborating very well in private. Of course Lemmy doesnt yet support all the features that Piefed has, but thats not their fault.
Oh. Multiple times Iโve heard that it has unilaterally broken ActityPub rules, but I never investigated exactly how.
Not that I know of, but I also haven't tested Piefed nor followed the development closely.
Recently there was a case where federation of Piefed Feeds was incompatible with Multi-communities in the Lemmy dev version. It would have taken me a lot of boilerplate code to make these compatible, for little or no benefit. Rimu agreed to change it on the Piefed side instead, much easier.
A few days ago I read read about some blocking or hiding feature in Piefed that is incompatible with Lemmy. That might be inevitable if Lemmy simply doesn't support that feature. In the end there will always be some degree of incompatibility on the Fediverse, because every software has very different priorities.
Thanks for your work! By the way could you check this comment about compability. I would like to hear your opinion of this.
While JSON-LD is part of the ActivityPub specification, Lemmy doesnt use it at all (and afaik neither do Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube etc). Instead Lemmy uses JSON and Piefed is probably the same. We do provide the JSON-LD definitions which that comment complains about, but they have also often been incomplete.
Honestly I dont even know which Fediverse software uses JSON-LD. It doesnt seem useful to know "there is something called an Accept activity" when you dont have the UI logic to display them.
I was going to make a fork, governed by the users to ensure PTB features weren't present.
Is there already a decent fork, to save me time?
Pievolution is the AN fork if you want to go that route
A quick google turned up an agricultural consultancy in Malta. Do you have a link?
https://codeberg.org/Situation0262/Pievolution/
Also https://codeberg.org/quokkau/PyLova
Thats the one!
Is https://anarchist.nexus/ already using Pievolution? I wasn't sure since the footer still says Piefed. I'd rather use that than go back to Lemmy, it's just less feature rich unfortunately.
I'm not sure if its deployed yet off the base, this is all fairly recent I believe. Hell I just cloned earlier today so I can see where I can help.
@[email protected] may know more
Maybe I'll have enough energy after the kids go to bed to address some of the silly items like naming/links, or starting some documentation.
FYI after some chats its going to be @[email protected]'s fork, PyLova (python+pavlova), which has a community at [email protected] with links. Details to come.
"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
๐
oh no here you go
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
this can be read as a threat lol.
Powerful image though.
Since this is the fediverse, and we are up against some crazy shit, as far as this picture goes, I say "Hail Hydra."
Yeah, but do we want to be read as harassers?
I follow the disengagement rule as soon as I am requested to. Doesn't โMLโ instances do raids/agit spams?
iirc hexbear has had a 'disengage' rule since before even dbzer0
not as far as i'm aware; i moderate on ![email protected], which is for all reactionary content and even has a rule against going after federated instance mods/admins. lemmy content is a small fraction of the content posted there and when it is posted, half the time there's going to be someone complaining in the comment section about how they don't care about other instances at all
obviously cross-posting something will get people who want to comment engaged, but people cross-post things on the fediverse all the time, it's kind of the point of a platform like this
also the meme image i posted was just a joke, people are always throwing around accusations about other posters being alts and yeah they're all alts, my alts!
beatrice is iconic, i definitely relate to her a bit
I only know her, because my wife asks me to play ้ป้ๅคขๆณๆฒโ CROSS, much to my
If Rimu was banning people over personally targeting him that would be a valid concern. He isn't. Making new accounts to spread counter-programming to his userbase is not harassing him. It's only harassment if one makes accounts specifically to contact him.
That's weird, none of these memes are telling me to read settlers, disappointed in you.
here ya go https://readsettlers.org/
you should read it!
I did, I even read it again when I saw the meme! I didn't rub it in anyone's face so I don't think I'm a socialist tho.
Did the 3rd read make you communist or is it when you start smugly beating people over the head with you reading list? I prefer sci-fi fantasy.
i mean you did kind ask for it this time.
i was an anarchist long before i read settlers, it didn't really change my politics, just heightened my distaste for the united states
sci fi and fantasy is fine, i also like trashy stuff on ao3 and visual novels
I know I know, it's especially a dick move to bait you into the response, I'm being a jerk! God I hate the US.
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.
Extreme PTB. This is bad, especially after seeing how rimu tried to malign dbzer0 recently. Very ban-happy behaviour from the piefed admin.
Well his claim of stepping away from public interactions latest as long as expected
A new record of maybe 24 hours?
Was thinking more like 12hr
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
Shame on Rimu. They clearly shouldn't be in any position of authority.
Remind me again why yโall 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 @[email protected] was the one we needed to worry about in the first place.
::: spoiler and where did that bring you
back to me... :::
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.
Uhuh.
Iโm sure there was another piece of code specifically designed to silence leftists a few days ago, given itโs the entire purpose of piefed, but itโs not like this is a surprise?
> @[email protected] said in Rimu Mass Bans Users: > > 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.
Extremely concerning.
I knew there was hardcoded stuff to block instances, but this goes further... got a link?
Here.
He pushed that into the code of Piefed at the same time that he was getting criticized a few days ago. Added the feature specifically to control the narrative.
Because we can no longer sit back and allow Tankie infiltration, Tankie indoctrination, Tankie subversion and the international Tankie conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
What are all those fluids for? Are they what you store in the tanks??
Did they get the cum in time????
My cum is only for spilling into socks!! Rimu can't have any!
Easily modified code base?
Lemmy is open source and doesnโt have ableist function names, but ydy
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.
On my list of least favorite languages, Python is number 2, right after English.
Hey, let's create a thread about language preference and utilities elsewhere, โcause I am interested in your perspectives, and blatantly I don't want to OT.
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 ๐
Iโll bask in knowing that Mia knew exactly what I meant at least.
Okay now I'm like 90% sure that null account is a rimu alt.
They're both using that rimus not transphobic line as a defense to try and deflect
Edit:
Based on all interactions in the comments below null either really really loves rimu or is rimu
If Rheori is Serinus, Null can be Rimu.
Why world serinus have an alt though? They're happy to do it in public once they have prevented anyone from responding
Lol multiple people can see with their own 2 eyes that Mia said she thinks Rimu is a transphobe?
Must be an alt!
This is like the 5th time someone has said that and no have not seen any evidence.
I was told they liked the features and now just may not want to migrate.
Neither really looking like great long term options at this rate
Oh my god the lolcowery continues.
This is just embarassing.
... See this is where it becomes highly obvious that if you sent this person like a physical, 'Power Tripping Bastard' award, a 3d printed statuette or medallion or something, they'd just continue to lose their shit in a more extreme way.
Like in a roundabout way... dude literally needs help, and I feel bad for him. Very much needs to touch grass for a couple of months, take a vacation from the internet, get those cortisol levels back to reasonable.
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.
I don't think an additional post would be helpful, but it seems I've been banned from feddit.online as well.
Which I'm not even sure if I've ever been on?
Lines up with rimus call to other instances to rid them of these unmentionables
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.
Everyone but the ones causing the actual issues. Like now with rimu and before lemmy.world admins and mods
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.
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.
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/
In summary all the worst parts of reddit on the fediverse
Same happened to me.
https://piefed.ca/comment/4659715
Seems to be from that post by rimu that @[email protected] shared here
Nah, mine was from earlier, but at the sameish time across 3 instances. I presume the same course happened, Rimu wanted me banned and pushed others to follow suit (and some agreed).
How can I participate in the next big harassment campaign? Do I get paid in Yuan? Ruble? Can I get it via Xi JinPIX?
Put a fork in it, folks, it's done
A fork is right utensil to eat pavlova with.
https://codeberg.org/quokkau/PyLova
I love a good pass pavlova! And clever wordplay.
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 RIMU
Bro, 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.
the people i recognize on the list are anarchists
y0kai, unruffled, db0, stamets, quokka
what is happening here
@[email protected] 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.
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.
PTB
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
Wow, talk about a self-implosion.
I, for one, would love to see an example of the "harassment" I engaged in.
Having a normal oneโฆ
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.
when you're modding on piefed but you're a reddit mod at heart
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. ๐ฅด
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!
Lemmy.world and also lemmy.ca might be on his side unfortunately (their administration). They seemed to be on the same page when it came to the last drama involving Lemmy.world threating to defederate from FAF (dbzer0, Anarchist.nexus, and Quokk.au).
I stopped looking for maybe an hour? And now I'm seeing several posts about mass bannings, some peoole talkig abojt someone who is anti-anarchist/anti-marxist, some problem with the Lemmy devs... and I don't know what's going on at all lol
Curious where the other ones are now
Is it time to fork piefed or am I out of the loop?
I think anarchist nexus are already running a fork, aren't they?
Interesting, any info about where they hang around?
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/26046534
Elsewhere in this very thread
The tree of a code repository must be refreshed, from time to time, with the commits of forks.
You mean backporting?
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/
I have no idea of the circumstances of these bans, but I can say that several (maybe four or five) of these users are people I've encountered where the conversation has been politically charged but respectful until they showed up, and in around a two hour window, I've been heavily downvoted.
That's anecdotal, it's not strong evidence of coordinated raiding or bullying, but there does seem to be a trend, and I guess it might be the same thing Rimu is responding to?
I don't know any of these people personally, but I remember the names I encounter here pretty well.
I try to judge each comment on it's own merit, but there are users I consider more trustworthy than others, and I know I align with the opinions and politics of a lot of users on this ban list.
So yes, users like say, Diva or Db0, have a bit more credibility in my eyes. Could just be that a lot of people agree with them.
why thank you!
i'd like to think that's not by happenstance, i do try to put in the effort at understanding where people are coming from.
in the past i've even had disagreements with a fair number of people on this list, my orientation is always to try to squash a beef if the other person is receptive to it. particularly if it's with someone i can tell would be a comrade otherwise.
It is noticed and appreciated.
It's my goal to put out more good than bad, even if I am a little shit sometimes.
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Just hours ago he asked other admins to ban us, resulting in feddit.online following him and both of them abusing the modlog to claim I am harassing him.
I do not view this as distancing himself, but expanding what he is doing and recruiting others to continue to target us.
Likewise I reached out days ago to initiate dialogue and was met with being kicked from all Matrix channels and instance banned from .social.
Removing an old post where many people disagreed with him means nothing to me while he continues to engage in this childish behaviour.
Iโm sorry, but I can no longer see this being resolved as long as Rimu continues to act as antagonistic, dismissive, and immature as he has been.
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For future reference
I also want to point out they restarting the point in the fediverse lemmy.world comm after saying they were disengaging
https://lemmy.world/comment/23754367
Distancing oneself looks a lot different from launching instance bans and handing other admins a slice of their personal beef.
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That's not how disengage works. It's not a magic "last word" button.
This is a discussion worth our time because the fediverse is built on communication. Without it, there is no platform.
he should do a retraction. It was a hit piece that got traction on mastodon with a lot of people thinking that an LLM had been put in charge of moderation that rimu never bothered to correct.
*edit looks like the other thread that was nuked was on lemmy.world
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Can I ask where Iโve been โtoxicโ?
Left and queer, VGA has repeatedly found issues with those.
Yup. If anyone isn't aware, check their modlog history. They have a history of queerphobia.
I apologize, I did not recognize every single name on the list. I have no reason to believe you are toxic.
Thank you for the apology.
So you just went on gut feelings instead of reading? That sounds right for Piefed simps.