So glad I just switched to Linux.

Well, I probably could have given a more detailed reason. I will own that.

I will also unban you because you seem genuine and not malicious.

If you’re saying you weren’t part of the brigade but just so happened to subscribe—but it did not federate—and downvote at an inopportune time, while a brigade was ongoing, that might be possible. I’m skeptical, but it’s possible.

However, your immediate recourse was to create this thread instead of DM and iron out a potential misunderstanding.

That’s really unfortunate.

That community is incredibly small. I am the only active poster there. That post was already several hours old, and suddenly 10 downvotes come in quick succession? And none of them from members of the community? Yeah, that looks like a brigade to me.

As for the OP—I’d say accusing me of advertising is pretty damn uncivil. And not someone I want participating.

You weren’t subscribed to the community because prior to your ban, I did a search for your username—didn’t find you on the subscription list. Furthermore, that thread was the first time you ever upvoted or downvoted any topic there.

Since you were not a member of the community, and since your only participation occurred in that thread—concurrent with other votes in quick succession—it is reasonable to assume that you were brigading.

CORRECTION: I never said I would “only enforce the rules.” You invented that.

Here’s the reality: the rules are deliberately broad. They’re written with enough vagueness to give me flexibility—because no community can thrive under rigid, legalistic interpretations. Context matters. Tone matters. And intent matters.

So let me spell it out:

If I see uncivil behavior—mockery, hostility, personal attacks, or bad-faith engagement—I’ll step in. If I see a sudden vote brigade propping up that kind of uncivil behavior—and yes, you participated in that—I’ll take action there too.

It’s a performance piece.

Might be a federation issue. Try viewing the URL at the bottom of the post.

Great question. For one thing, it’s built to be a general Piefed video game community. There’s another one on piefed.social but it’s way more meme heavy and into “gamer culture” instead of just video games.

As for why Piefed and not Lemmy, it’s because Piefed communities are portable. That is, if the admin proves to be awful or a server threatens to shut down, you can just move the community elsewhere.

Also, audience. I crosspost from @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org, an account that has 14.5K followers. So lots of comments come from Mastodon and Akkoma.

Finally, content. Less outrage culture. More games. Many which you’re likely to have never played before.

Joke’s on them. I use a fork of that obscure client/tool.

Looks like this Hamburger is off the menu.

Then there’s me: buying up 45s and cassettes, putting them up on !recordpics@piefed.social.

It’s quite simple: when I tag my posts with @movies@lemm.ee from Akkoma, my post doesn’t show up there.

My posts show up when I tag @movies@lemmy.world with a delay. And it near-instantly shows up when I tag @movies@piefed.social. So for whatever reason, crossposting doesn’t work with !movies@lemm.ee.

Now if you’re wondering why this is important to me: I have over 14K followers on my Akkoma account, so I can attract a lot of conversation with my movie reviews.

Here’s the reason I’m not using this community:

https://atomicpoet.org/@atomicpoet/posts/ArrYdHUIMZf6Wyve9w

As for !movies@lemm.ee, it doesn’t play nice with Akkoma – so that’s not an option.

Piefed has great moderation tools and superior federation abilities compared to Lemmy.

Not an issue with the community itself, I just have a hard time federating to lemm.ee from atomicpoet.org. Whenever I tag !movies@lemm.ee, my reviews don’t reach there. Piefed is much better when it comes to crossposting from Akkoma.

Not quite. I watched this movie because it seemed like a high-brow rom-com. I admit it: the film poster fooled me.