.world sucks ass, it's a reddit clone
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 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:
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
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- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
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- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
- You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
- If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.
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.
Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
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Lol says the "reddthat" user. Actually it's a good instance name, but the irony ...
There are a few news related subs on .world with shitty moderators, the rest of the instance is as chill as anywhere else. If you see .world mentioned here, it is probably the News community.
I wish i could find a better instance. :c
You can. This community is on a good instance.
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Unless demanded by local legislation, that's a clear PTB in my book.
So. You have a link about the usage of force by the dogs of some broligarchic junta. Clearly unnecessary, unless someone thinks people in wheelchair are such a violent threat that it demands such measures. The group was arrested mostly for "Crowding, Obstructing, and Incommoding" - i.e. some "quick, find some law that fits this situation, so we can get rid of those things! Heil Chrump!".
Then you have a commenter (the_q) correctly pointing out shit won't progress unless people actually fight back. And another (PancakesCantKillMe) clearly quoting something; I don't even know (or care) who this Thomas Turbano guy is, but the second comment is clearly a quote.
So, let ask me the following: accordingly to the LW mods, is self-defence violence?
- If it is not, then those comments should not be removed as "advocating violence".
- If it is, then they're effectively promoting that people should lower themselves from human beings to punching bags of their local junta.
Don't get me wrong - I don't even think they're doing this "intentionally". I get LW mods are full of Good Intentions®, and for the sake of some idyllic vision of pacifism, where tyrants will magically stop being tyrants if you say them "tyranny bad! EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD, KIND STRANGER!". However Hell is full of good intentions.
I mean, in fairness, Thomas Jefferson was a big advocate for violence. As far as he was concerned, if someone was infringing on your rights, the answer was to get some friends with some rifles and go to work.
Who do we need to be fair to? Nazi sympathizers?
That aside, does that mean libraries in NL aren’t allowed to carry books that quote Thomas Jefferson? I doubt they have any risk of law enforcement beating their doors down over that…
I'm not agreeing with the mods, I haven't even looked into the details. I'm pretty sure it is legal to advocate violence in books (or, for that matter, on the internet), it's just that in the weird quasi-legal regulatory space that is moderated forums it is a universal no no.
I'm just saying that if the mods are accusing Thomas Jefferson quotes of advocating violence, they are probably right, because he was a big and unapologetic advocate of violence in some circumstances.
It is illegal only if it is reasonably going to trigger or calls for any immediate lawlessness. Like straight up trying to get a bunch of people together to knock-over a convenience store or actually organizing a murder.
Saying "man, I wish this evil son of a bitch took a round in the face" is not such a time. Niether is quoting someone else suggesting violence as a path towards liberty.
Correctamundo. It's called the Brandenburg test.
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who shoukd we be fair to? nazis?
Yep. And nobody else. To do otherwise would be illiberal and amtisemitic and communist.
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based.
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Reading JL's comments in this thread reminds me of this excellent quote
"A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now."
PTB
Time to post some quotes
Others I like:
Those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
JFK
Riots are the voice of the unheard
MLK
Well ayy, you beat me to making a PTB post on this, but uh yeah...
.world?
collaborating with and covering for fascists?
I get that they're ~~US-based and have to follow US laws~~, but man, thats ironic.
Edit: NL/Germany based https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
I thought they were in NL? Also, quoting Thomas Jefferson is not against the law in the USA.
Shoot, you're right about the jurisdiction. That makes it even dumber. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
It can be construed as advocating for violence in this context. Since, ya know, it's obvious who the tyrants are
I never knew where this quote came from, I have heard variants of it several times but never figured out the source until now.
And if you don't know that, it is just a random sentence calling for violence.
Which I can understand the mod not being aware of.
Well, that wouldn't violate any US laws even if they were.
I continue to maintain that the best individual policy is to instance-block .world and let the redditor hoi polloi who end up there self-select onto smaller and better instances as they wake up to what a crappy place the default is. If they aren't capable of eventually waking up to that, then I don't really want them in my feed, so .world is a good place for them to be contained.
People should move to other instances and mods of popular communities should migrate the communities as well.
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So they've gone from "we don't have a first amendment so shut up" to "we don't have any ethics so shut up." Cool.
First, not the mod who removed it.
Second, they weren't quoting Jefferson to be quoting Jefferson, they were MANGLING Jefferson so they could make a call for violence.
The full quote:
https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/tree-liberty-quotation/
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure."
Removed quote:
"The Tree of Liberty needs watered from the blood of patriots and tyrants from time to time. I fear we are there."
Saying "I fear we are there" is a direct call to violence, it's not in the OG quote and that's why it got removed.
Saying “I fear we are there” is a direct call to violence
No it's not.
The mod who removed it disagreed, I also disagree and would have removed it as well.
When ascertaining a threat, agencies use "immenence" as a primary marker. So saying something like "Hey, every now and then we need to guillotine these bastards." Is fine.
Saying "Hey, every now and then we need to guillotine these bastards, how does Tuesday sound, does Tuesday work for you?" has a level of immenence that the first statement lacks.
The call to action is shedding blood, immediately. That's removable.
Its kinda funny to me, its like you can talk about how shitting is necessary for humans to live but don't you dare say you're gonna go take a dump.
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Yea, God forbid we make statements that would be unappealing to advertisers.
You do know there is nothing illegal in most countries about talking about violence, right? Like, that rule is not for any legitimate legal reason, it's there to keep websites sanitary.
Why the fuck are you so afraid of calls to action?
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Even money says Jordan is involved.
PTB. Like always for .world lol
we're talking about quoting the guy who put slaves in secret cupboards and trapdoors under tables and shit right
what's the name of this shitty movement that guy ended up founding anyway? why quote him?
What’s the legal standard in the Netherlands? Anyone know? Seems relevant here.
Sadly, we have rules we must follow as well.
The rule in this case is a site-wide rule:
https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#1-attacks-on-people-or-groups
Before using the website, remember you will be interacting with actual, real people and communities. Lemmy.World is not a place for you to attack other people or groups of people. Just because you disagree with someone doesn't give you the right to harass them. Discuss ideas and be critical of principles. Show the respect you desire to receive.
We do not tolerate serious threats or calls for violence.
Thank you for checking in, your attention is noticed and appreciated (really!). I will start by acknowledging my heavy snark. To address your point: Which group of people was seriously targeted by threats or calls to violence by the Benjamin Franklin quote?
I can't say, as I wasn't a part of the action. I'm at the hospital with my kid right now, but when I have time, I'll dig further
A rule of thumb: message the top mod (first person on the mod list) when you have a problem.
Everybody else defers to them, and we tend to not override them, as moderator powers trickle down - meaning if you look at the list, the person at the top can remove all those under them.
If you see a top mod abusing their power, go to the instance home page, and on the right, you can see the admins. They have god tier power, and can right wrongs mods can't.
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Dude, Jefferson literally advocated for violence. They're not wrong in the slightest with that.
He said people dying in a violent battle (in pursuit of something) is the "natural manure". And killing lots of people is pretty much peak violence.
Got it, so we're allowed to post news articles on .world discussing facsists advocating for and directly enacting brutal violence... at a grand scale...
But unspecified, indirect references to the concept of violent resistance, self-defense, on a similar scale... nah, users can't do that.
You do not see a hypocrisy here?
A blatant and glaring double standard?
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The libs are libbing again
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