This is Lemmy, if your comments show up later, that's probably just eventual consistency. The power of federation is also the slowness of federation.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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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.
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.
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- 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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- Federation means wide discrepancies between who can see what when and why based on where they are posting from.
actually that's from reddit. I knew about the federation rules here but now I'm curious do any places in fediverse do this?
A few instances have had problems with this, Lemmy.nz had massive problems with staying federated with World, because the standard would only send one piece of information at a time. (yes, really)
They ended up over a day behind at one point, because every comment and upvote counted as a piece of information, and it was like four per second that could be sent.
I also suspect someone from one of the ml domains would have far less interaction on a post than most, because so many instances don't federate with them, and many users on ones that do have blocked the instance they're on.
There's some comms here that autoban people with bots based on downvotes for a day or so, but this sort of automoderation is not very common. Threativore in our instance does it against spam but it has a built-in appeals system.
Not really the right comm for this. !reddit might be better
oh, is this for fediverse only? my bad
No this is for everything, but you're complaining about an automated mod system in wide use over a service encompassing many different approaches per subreddit, rather than a specific mod action, so it is out of scope for this comm.
ah. should I like, delete it then?
It's ok
Meh it's their community, they can do as they please. I could see some more controversial subs choosing this for themselves, and in that context with full consent of those involved it seems fine to me. aka free speech isn't anywhere close to free.
it's definitely not happening in only either of those conditions. i've only caught on after the the two years because it how heavily reddit obfuscates it. I actually thought I was imagining things until I could confirm I saw it happening to other people and then knew how to search for another thread about it.
On Lemmy, or Mbin, or PieFed, or in Mastodon, or PeerTube, or Loops, I presume Friendica, etc., basically any open source federated software product I mean, you can make you own server, create your own sub/community/magazine/whatever-it-is-called, and invite people to post in it, or just post yourself, and nobody can stop you. They can defederate from you, thereby refusing to offer your content a platform on their own machines, but they can't tell you what to do on your own machine that you pay for and administer.
Arguably using Reddit is giving consent to them doing this stuff. We could not stop them, hence we came here to be free of it, and now we are:-). But anyone who continues to use Reddit continues to offer consent for Reddit to keep doing this stuff, if they want to.
guess it's really time to pull the plug then. the volume of content might not be worth hanging around there for anymore
It is for some people, looking for particular niche interests. Personally I haven't posted in 2 years or commented in 1 year... and that was recommending that people check out Lemmy. To each their own I suppose though - if someone wants it that's fine, but it is what it is, not necessarily what we hope it would be.