cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/yepowertrippinbastards/p/904933/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 (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.
I read one of @[email protected] 's threads about submitting user content to AIs for modding (and banning), and imho they made an important point. Actually less than that, they asked an important question, a request to discuss things in the fediverse.
But there was a bunch of what I’d describe as anarcho-capitalist* or just chan nerds who basically argued that it’s not an issue because the fediverse is public anyhow, and anybody running an instance can do whatever they want anyhow, and therefore anybody who wants to discuss the ethics of the fediverse is … well, wrong.
And I disagree with the conclusion.
I’m sure @[email protected] was wrong in some points or rather how they went about things.
But they discussed their points calmly, unlike said others.
I’d take every claim that @rimu has been lying or deliberately deceiving or whatnot with a huge grain of salt. This was done to me, too, in said post. One of the loudest commenters accused me of lying, over a technical discrepancy in saying “removing a link” vs. “taking down a link”. IIRC. The latter, in their opinion, meaning the whole server was taken down and not just one link. It was all very emotional, I had the distinct feeling of being shouted at impatiently. Of course said person would claim that’s just me 🤷
So.
While I don’t know what actual harassment campaign he’s refering to, what I witnessed in this post might well have resulted in some people taking further action via DMs or whatnot.
And anyhow, why wouldn’t @[email protected] ban some people on their own instance; it’s very much in concert with the main argument against him.
It’s one of those cases where @rimu’s role (as piefed’s dev) makes him the perfect target for some sort of We the Underdogs vs. Big Dev narrative, and I just don’t buy it.
I like how they expressed this themselves, including admitting that they got triggered: https://join.piefed.social/2026/05/12/what-worked-at-100-users-broke-at-5000/
* ig “libertarian” would be more fitting but I don’t want USians to think this has anything to do with what they call liberalism
Please, feel free to review my history of posts and comments, and identify anything that you can that would point to harassment. Please note that I don’t dm anyone, so I can screenshot an empty list, but thats all you’re going to see there.
This line made me laugh:
If only there were any other developers on the Internet that they could have learned from and taken an example. If only anyone had ever written an application before.