this post was submitted on 25 Nov 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.
Posting Guidelines
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).
- Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
Rules
- Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
- Don’t deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
- Don’t harass mods or brigade comms. Don’t word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
- 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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I rule Clueless Mod as well. To be fair, they're usually doing a very good job in that community.
I've used a Dropbear SSH server in the initramfs for a while to unlock my server:
Other possibilities include using the TPM module, a USB flash drive with a keyfile on it... A KVM / remote management module which is part of server and enterprise hardware anyway...
The latter is probably the easiest and most reliable solution.
There's good use-cases for encryption on servers. Especially if other people have physical access to the location. Or it's at home and a robber could steal it. Or you'd need a kill-switch to just turn it off and the encryption at rest kicks in... You don't need to overwrite harddisk several times on replacement, or whip out the power tools to drill holes in it once it's e-waste. And I have a lot of personal data on my server. Emails, my phone and laptop sync to it so there's all my private photos, scans of paperwork and half of my life stored on the NAS. So of course I'm going to protect that. And of course it's related to selfhosting because we have all kinds of sensitive information stored on selfhosted servers.
I'm strongly considering the drop bear because it sounds cool.