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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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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 22 points 3 days ago (45 children)

I'm really not sure how the TOS apply given it opens with:

This Terms of Service applies to your access to and active use of https://lemmy.world/, it's API's and sub-domain services (ex alt GUIs)(we, us, our the website, Lemmy.World, or LW) as well as all other properties and services associated with Lemmy.World.

Sag wasn't accessing or making active use of lemmy.world itself. This would be like an email provider blocking a particular address from another service because the user of that address doesn't comply with a part of their TOS.

[–] irelephant@calckey.world -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@flamingos@feddit.uk While the email analogy works well, activityPub is technically an api.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a protocol, which I suppose you could argue is an API though that'd be a very liberal definition of API.

[–] irelephant@calckey.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@flamingos@feddit.uk As per the spec:

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 23 hours ago

Interesting. I've always considered an API a way to control some other software, while a protocol is about different software communicating. IDK, I just don't consider APub's S2S an API. Don't know if that'd hold up in court, but that's what I think.

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