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  • Getting instance banned is a problem that wasn’t present on Reddit.

    On Reddit, sometimes the mods of a sub would be drinking stupid juice and ban people just for disagreeing with them. That wasnt a huge problem because a mod on a power trip only stopped you from posting/commenting in that sub; it wasn’t a site-wide ban.

    The problem on Lemmy is that instance admins are essentially filling the role of subreddit mods. Except when they go on a power trip and ban users of their instance, that whole account is suddenly banned from the entire Fediverse because the user can’t even log in anymore. That’s pretty shitty.

    This is my second account. My first got banned from an instance because I dared question the admins opinion. And no, it wasn’t racist or political shit, it was literally about the quality of a show. They graciously offered to unban me if I wrote a long ass apology saying they were right and promising to never question them again; but I felt that was childish, so I moved to another instance.

    Losing my comment history isn’t a big deal, but having to recreate my filters and subscriptions list is a pain in the ass. All because some power tripping admin got mad that I didn’t like his favorite show.