Those users are probably going to end up in a banned list hardcoded in the program.

A fork is right utensil to eat pavlova with.

https://codeberg.org/quokkau/PyLova

When you aren't popular enough to make the list

PTB, he banned me for screenshotting the public group chat.

In his own words.

Offering to talk to resolve his grievances and apologising for any unintended offence is now harassment? :bc_rollingeyes:

“Orchestrated a coordinated harassment campaign.” That’s quite a claim; where’s the evidence?

Their response would probably involve a combination of deflecting, discrediting you, attacking you, and doubling down on their warped perceived reality.

Not gonna lie, I'm pretty sure at least 2 of those names have been featured on PTB before.

This place if rife with powermods.

what's with this desperate cry for attention from him lately? why can't he just go back to being the person nobody fucking remembers until he breaks something in Piefed again?

It's difficult enough to get 20+ people to agree on anything. Like what toppings on a pizza order. Much less a targeted smear campaign.

Alas, yes, PTB.

While any given instance can freely ban people for whatever reason, making reasons up is always gone to be PTB.

If they'd just said they didn't like the people and didn't want them around? Shitty, but only PTB on a technicality, in that that's something an admin shouldn't use as criteria. Yeah, I know that seems fucking weird, but there is a degree of personal choice when running an instance. Nobody has to let in people they don't like. On a small instance, it wouldn't matter.

But on that instance, it matters. If you're going to play the heavy on a flagship instance, you've got a higher standard to meet. If that's not in your capabilities, you shouldn't be running a main instance. Foist that work off to someone temperamentally inclined to not screw the pooch. But if you're going to be pulling that kind of thing, be honest. Don't make up bullshit reasons, it destroys your credibility and shows that you are, indeed, in it for the power fantasy to some degree or another.

Say what you want about the names on that list as members of the fediverse at large, but half of those names are well known to not abuse power, and the more recognizable ones sure as hell aren't organizing any harassment. Even if only because they're recognizable. They'd be smart enough to create a random account unconnected to their main ones.

So, yeah, PTB and full of malarkey

Is my name on the list?
Yes Sir
Sh...
Oh, but it actually has a different surname
Phew

You see, surnames are important. With them, you get a working fedilink, instead of a broken one.

(I don't care about the drama. I just saw users getting caught by this bug.)

Remind me again why y’all have piefed instances?

Iso@lemy.lol is the former admin of lemy.lol. It's also a bit odd because Piefed.social defederated from lemy.lol over their logo and Iso has told Rimu to go fuck himself a few times over it. The fact that he decided to block him here and now is telling because it proves its a personal hitlist and not coordinated harassment as he wants to claim. Otherwise, why wasn't he blocked prior? And even then, why block an account now from a defederated instance?

Easily modified code base?

I don't know. But it's gotten to the point that I don't trust any piefed instances anymore at all. Rimu pushed a piece of code into Piefed a few days ago specifically to silence criticism against him and to silently delete/block posts on Piefed. He is exerting such an extreme amount of control onto the entire platform itself that I cannot trust the platform itself.

Every piefed instance, as far as I'm concerned at this point, comes with an enormous asterisk.

Lemmy is open source and doesn’t have ableist function names, but ydy