In general, I’ve been eyeing leaving Lemmy in general for Piefed for a while, mostly over the concerning behavior of the Lemmy devs in enforcing genocide denial on their flagship server.

As for this move specifically, however, I’ve had some tension with Dbzer0 the past few months. Originally I mostly shrugged it aside. They’re anti-electoralists, I’m not, it’s whatever, it’s the Fediverse, we don’t have to agree. I preferred to move LOTRmemes to Dbzer0 initially for decentralization reasons, and at the time the admins hadn’t given me much in the way to distrust them.

I was recently banned from Dbzer0 for a false claim made by some poster who loves to talk about me, and then proceeded to spread the additional easily disproven lie that I was transphobic and refused to use neopronouns over my interactions with a user called Drag - both of which are demonstrably untrue claims which I confronted the poster on previously; the admins apparently don’t give a shit how many times this happens, but downvoting that aforementioned poster when they say something objectionable is against the rules. Apparently, downvotes are forbidden if it’s a poster the admins like to asspat.

Funny enough, I was actually assured that both the main admins at the time of the controversy with Drag were broadly onboard with my opinion - ie that I was willing to use Drag’s pronouns, but didn’t regard that as carte blanche to force people to call dragons real. Guess that’s transphobia too - or maybe they’ve changed their opinions since to suit.

However, the behavior of the admins has gotten to the point where I’m really through with the whole instance, and getting a 7-day instance ban for bullshit from a poster that they regularly permit to spread blatant lies was just the last straw.

Banning people for being anti-AI, removing criticism of the admins’ own behavior (including, ironically, in YePowerTrippingBastards), hiding the ability to check mods in the modlogs, handing out bans despite breaking no rules but being a ‘turbolib’ for arguing for anarchist harm reduction, removing posts for ‘badjacketing’ for anyone making an accusation (except, of course, for people or accusations they like), the idea that preventing Nazis from getting into office is good is ‘reactionary’ and removal-worthy, banning discussion of Blahaj’s policy of banning people in other comms from YePowerTrippingBastards, trying to force through refederation with Lemmygrad, of all places - it’s pretty clearly not for me.

So, you’re all welcome to make the move with me, or you’re welcome to stick around there, of course. The dbzer0 comm will need new mods, but mods are a dime a dozen, honestly, so my departure there is no great loss to the comm. All up to personal preference - but I sure as shit won’t be posting there anymore, even after the instance ban expires.