this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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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:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Rules


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.


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[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The post did not necessarily convince me to block the HC instance, but the instance admin of it coming in here to combat every comment critical of the instance sure has lol.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Same - just defederated them from Feddit.dk. What actually convinced me to defederate was this comment. That kind of "hands off" moderation approach just seems irresponsible to me.

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[–] expr@programming.dev 57 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (104 children)

Didn't know much about hilariouschaos, but it's definitely an instance I will be blocking after reading this thread. Any instance willing to put up with nazis should be shunned and other instances should defederate from them.

Edit: Apparently I already blocked the instance when I joined lemmy. Go figure.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

They’re a troll instance. Think 4Chan but without the wit.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 65 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

I saw someone say that Hilarious Chaos is just a rebranding of Exploding Heads and it started making sense as to why it looked so familiar. I blocked them.

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[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 14 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Hmm, I’m still new to Lemmy. How do I block an instance?

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

But their chaos is so hilarious 😐

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 days ago

Some apps can block instances iirc. But unfortunately lemmy's actual instance filter is busted as shit.

I opened an issue about this, so we'll be getting it in 1.0/1.1.0.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

If you use an app like Voyager, you can block entire instances. There are also web interfaces that allow it as well.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (24 children)

As so often happens:

“We’re just tired of these THOUGHT POLICE and want to make a place where we can finally just hang out and be comfortable without the fun police hanging over our shoulders censoring every word we’re free speech warriors come join us we’re better”

Turned out to mean:

“I want to be an asshole, you have no rights whatsoever, that’s a given and fuck you, and if anyone EVER infringes on any of my rights real or imagined in any way no matter how trivial, I will throw a hissy fit of thermonuclear proportions”

(I’m just assuming that this PTB is indicative of hilariouschaos / exploding-heads in general, I don’t have a very strong read on what they’re about. But I think it is a safe working theory.)

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, hilariouschaos is a bit of a special instance.

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 36 points 6 days ago (11 children)

I am willing to believe there is MASSIVE overlap between cryptobros and lemmy's right-wing users.

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