The more read about these bans stuff on Lemmy, the more I just see the similarities between Reddit and Lemmy lol.

• Random bans because you said something that disagrees with the moderator.
• Fake modlog to ban users.
• More hostility these days.
• People argue just to… argue. Not to have a genuine debate.

Eventually every social media platform becomes the same kind of environment. Unfortunately.

I made the list! Wow, this is the first time I’ve been involved in the drama 🥰

So this is Rimu’s personal hitlist of people who wronged him, such as the old admin of lemy.lol who argued with him months ago over their Pepe logo. He’s abusing the modlog to claim these users are harassing him.

I love the part where Rimu lies and say no one reached out to him to talk. Yet there are screenshots of admins saying I’m here to talk if you would like and he ignores and bans them.

Truly the most childish of all Threadiverse devs, and someone who clearly should not be in a position of power.

Well, at this point, the piefed idea is in the mud for me. The point of federation is exactly not giving people too much power. Just move on from him and let’s do better.

The link was not opening for me. But this one opens: https://quokk.au/c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com/p/904933/rimu-mass-bans-users

I read one of @rimu@piefed.social '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 @rimu@piefed.social 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 @rimu@piefed.social 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

#Fedidrama
By the way, did you look at @dessalines@lemmy.ml modlog?

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I have not even interacted with Rimu in any way for days prior to getting kicked from the PieFed developer Matrix channels.

Is this a continuation of this? :

https://lemmy.world/post/46576528

Rimu doesn’t want authoritarians. I have never interacted with them personally, but it seems that this is causing issues for some people.