Hey! So I posted today with my main account, @Stamets@startrek.website, to !memes@lemmy.ml but after an hour it showed no signs of activity. No upvotes, no downvotes, no nothing. So I checked the modlog just in case and there seemed to be no sign that anything was removed or that I was banned. So I made a post to this community on that same account detailing the issue. Post also vanished. I checked with a fellow poster from Startrek.Website and he couldn’t see my posts but his went through.

I was just wondering if there was a federation problem going on or something else? If I was banned then I’m not sure why but I would accept it. I’m just not sure what’s going on. Help?

Edit: Well, nevermind I guess. Evidently I’ve been banned. It would have been really nice to know what I did wrong though or to at least been given a warning. Sorry for whatever I did wrong. Take care.

    • Stamets@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Oh it was an instance ban. Not a community ban.

      I wouldn’t say odd so much as “inconsiderate” and “petty”. The modlog of the community I was posting to showed zero removals or problems. It was the modlog of the instance as a whole. So it wasn’t even easy to find in the first place. Top that off with wildly inconsistent meanings of the rules. Their rule 1 is “Don’t be bigoted/racist/sexist/etc”. Hilarious given they removed an anti-homophobia post for that. They removed another post where the meme was “If you don’t respond my trans homies I’ll change your pronouns to was/were”. That was removed for rule 2. To “Be respectful.”

      The extreme lack of communication by moderation, the lack of warnings, the lack of any consistency, and the hypocrisy is beyond rank. When you’re removing posts protecting trans people because it’s “Not respectful” or when you’re removing posts shaming Disney for homophobia then it only goes to show how utterly repugnant, backwards, backhanded, nonsensical, and dishonest the moderation and admins teams are on lemmy.ml.

      This is the last comment I’m ever making on this instance. You’ll never see my main account here again or this account ever be used again. I don’t trust the people here. Especially when doing some research and it seems that lemmy.ml got co-opted by lemmygrad and is slowly turning into hexbear 2.0.

      I go out of my way to be polite, kind, considerate and to listen to others. If someone had an issue and they wanted to talk then I’d be here. The mods and admins never did that. Never even thought of doing it. That is some wildly reddit behavior and it’s specifically what I left reddit to avoid. It’s also what I’ll be avoiding at all possible costs on lemmy.