Edit: @[email protected] Contacted the moderator who did it on my behalf who admitted that this was a mistake, he sends his apologies. This incident though does highlight though the need for ban notifications as well as the need for a modmail system to contact community and site moderators.
I have left the post up with the original contents bellow as I feel it would be wrong to delete the post and rob people of the valuable information it contains, both in the post itself and in the comment section.
I messaged a mod from the community, not sure if that was the one who did it but this was weird. Not sure if it's power-tripping probably a mistake but it's certainly weird and seems like a knee jerk reaction since I didn't have activity in those last 10 days (I checked for votes too). Also no other bans in the modlog for "sock puppet account" so I don't even know why I would be singled out.
Why would someone think I was a sock puppet account? Because I have multiple accounts on different instances? Really weird...
Account is @[email protected], I didn't post from that account since I try to keep each account on each separate instance (helps prevent accidental vote manipulation).
I got banned individually from every single community on an instance without a single notification. The reason given in the modlog was one word "lib".
gotta be .ml?
Midwest.social
Starting with 0.19.5, site bans also automatically create community bans from that instance's local communities.
Is that actually a native lemmy feature? I think some servers do it as a bot to clear content and prevent interaction but unless I understand correctly the issue of handling users interacting with local communities after receiving a site ban hasn't yet been addressed. It's been proposed here to add a table to federate site bans to communities but that seemingly hasn't been touched or implemented yet.
It's in lemmy code since 0.19.5, kinda, but only triggers local community bans after a local site ban.
There's plenty of weird (to me) federation behavior.
Mostly... an instance admin cannot remove a comment from a local user if it's on a remote community. I mean... you can, but it doesn't federate to the remote community.
There's a few other things that are counterintuitive
Yeah that is weird, an admin should be able to remove a local user's comments or posts even if they are on remote communities.
Also the automatically applying local bans after site ban seems like a very hacky workaround and doesn't work well when new communities are created since those won't have the person's ban in them. That's why I really hope they work on including site bans in communities, that way we just wouldn't need to worry about it.
Thing is you can with a site ban with content removal.. but not by removing individual content
It was an instance ban, I guess they did it because they do it for most instance bans because people who are instance banned can still interact with the community on other instances. Which to be fair, is a problem with how site bans are currently implemented in Lemmy still is a very weird and cryptic reason to ban someone though. Are Midwest.social right wing? They don't say they are right-wing but I know many self-proclaimed leftists who are actually right wing so it wouldn't surprise me.
IDK what they are. I don't even know what I said that got me banned, because I was never notified. I've only ever interacted with the community through their posts in the Everything feed. I'd say based on the overreaction, and the reason given, that the particular mod who banned me is right-wing, and power-tripping. I'm occasionally rude, and rarely serious, so it's possible I said something ban worthy, but I doubt it.
Definitely seems like they might be right wing, and likely power-tripping. I'd suggest making a post here about it, bring more attention to the issue, at the very least it could help people know to stay away from those communities and possibly that instance as a whole.