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.


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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.

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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.

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I thought FUD was a cryptobro term.

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[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 40 points 6 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 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) (105 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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[–] 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 5 days ago

But their chaos is so hilarious 😐

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] whirlpoolbrewer@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This was news to me and super helpful! In the Voyager app, go to Settings > Filters & Blocks. There will be a section called "Blocked Instances" and a button that says "Add Instance". Click the button, and there is a search suggestion box, so you just type "hil" and the first result is "hilariouschaos.com" and you can just click that result and you're done!

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[–] 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.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In Internet forum terms, "FUD" got popularized in the context of Microsoft's anti-Linux propaganda from the '90s and 2000s.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 12 points 6 days ago

Fear uncertainty and doubt to be used as a psyop was originally outlined in ww 2 sabotage manual

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