I debated posting this, but it’s a lazy, rainy Saturday and this is the hot topic, why not?
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards? AdmiralPatrick
- What sanction did they impose? Community ban. Additionally, three of my communities were on the tesseract ban list.
I was the one of the first downvotes on the latest post here: https://lemmy.today/post/57202811 which probably instigated the ban.
Aaaand I was linking to the Admiral’s rant all over lemmy, which may have been part of it.
Now, this kinda sucks because I liked tesseract up until I couldn’t mod my own communities anymore, finding out later that they were on the ban list. Of course when a locked post comes up trying to make sense of the community blocks, calling them unstable and unmoderated, I’m gonna downvote that shit.
My username wasn’t even on the original ban list, just those communities.
There’s nothing toxic or unmoderated about anything I run. Not to mention that one of those communities has barely over 100 subscribers and exists just to post a few daily news articles from independent, Canadian sources.
I know nothing about the ban list makes any sense, but blocking three small news communities with posts that rarely get more than two comments and twenty upvotes is crazy. He would have had to search and dig and dig just to find them.
It’s extra nuts considering my brandnewsentence community gets wayyyy more feisty comments than the rest put together, and it’s not blocked.
So there’s your drama, it’s a poor consolation prize for the loss of a pretty good front end. I’m looking forward to the fork and any updates on the ban list.


I do feel like piefed should disclose what settings are enabled on the server we’re using. Many of us came to the fediverse to get away from algorithms.
It does disclose it to the admins. I’m not sure how you would disclose it to general users? It’s not really a fediverse norm to expose admin settings to everyone. Though now that you say it, that might be a good thing to normalise?
Transparency of things that can affect a user’s experience is always a good thing to normalize to me. Maybe these admin setting values could be exposed with the API so apps and the server finder sites can show them?