This is probably more of a Lemmy specific thing than what’s normal on this community, but I posted on a community from lemmy.ml and the mods there banned me from the community.
They didn’t remove my post or message me about it. I only found out because when I was going through replies, I couldn’t reply and I noted that my account is banned from that community.
I wasn’t saying anything untoward or encouraging anyone to do anything illegal or anything like that. It was a comment about systems of government. I don’t believe I put any emphasis on whether one was better than another, but the post was in a non-political community; so it should not lean one way or the other on the matter, and the post I was replying to introduced the political discussion, so I was on-topic.
The specifics aren’t super important. What I want to know is whether there’s a built-in system to inquire with the mods or something to try to get an official reply as to what rules they believe I had broken to deserve a ban, and whether that ban is permanent or not. I tried simply messaging one of the mods, but it’s been hours with no reply.
Is there any way to find the information? Previously on Reddit, I would almost always get a message from the subreddit about what happened, what violation caused it, and allowed me to message the mods to try to argue my case, though, me getting banned on that platform was quite rare. This is my first time knowingly being removed like this and I don’t understand the process here.
Can anyone enlighten me about how these things are supposed to work on Lemmy?
This doesn’t answer your question, but I think that I would seriously ask whether you want to spend the time and angst on trying to be on said communities.
There are a lot of people that complain about banning policies of various communities on lemmy.ml; I see posts like yours on a semi-regular basis.
If this is !worldnews@lemmy.ml, which is a particularly noisy source of friction, there is another large world news community at !world@lemmy.world.
I’ve never been banned, but I don’t subscribe to communities on .ml. There’s plenty of content elsewhere.
I don’t believe I’m subscribed to the instance, or any of the communities there. I might be wrong.
In any case, I’ll likely audit all of my subscriptions to scrub them from that list, and I’ll likely also be going through the communities on .ml and just block all of them so they don’t appear on my “all” feed (which is how I frequently end up on there).
I’m over it. I don’t care what those people think of me. I have a pretty low opinion on the mods over there at this point.
It just causes too much stress in my life.
Ah, fair enough. I normally just view “subscribed” communities; “whitelist” rather than “blacklist”. Every now and then, I’ll hit lemmyverse.net or so and see if there are interesting-looking new communities.