UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:

unban log screenshot

I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in vegan@lemmy.dbzero.com, which is a more reasonable ban. this ban has also been lifted now. I appreciate the cooperation from the mod over this misunderstanding.


So it seems i've gotten a month-long ban in..... over 30 communities across lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, and several others, for this comment here.

Screen cap of comment for posterity:

It's directly replying to a comment saying they can't imagine why anyone thought otherwise about fish feeling pain, which is reasonable. You might notice the quotation marks, because it's satirizing people's mental gymnastics about fishes' pain perception. It was meant in jest, exclusively.

It seems likely that a single mod took this joke wrong and chose to ban me on every community they have control over.

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Yes, that's how it fixes it. You cannot be banned from lemmy, only individual servers.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    That is not "fixing". It is partial remedy.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think it's as much of a fix as is possible. If your problem is the owner or admin of the server your best solution is to leave. On reddit that meant leaving reddit. On lemmy it means you have to find another instance

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    On lemmy it means you have to find another instance

    My understanding is it works slightly differently.

    It means that all users of an instance which banned you won't be able to see your comments even if these are made on another instance. It therefore stops you from participating with all the users of the instance which banned you, even on other instances.

    Thus my comment about the limited remedy.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The alternative would be taking away power from instance owners, which is its own form of abuse.

    The only 'problem' here is that most communities are proud to abuse their power when it suits them.

    The solution is to make more communities that do not abuse their power. Unfortunately, people are afraid to do that because the abusive instances with threaten to "defederate" from instances that do not share the same agendas.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    How is it only a partial remedy?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Because you still can be banned across individual servers so multiple communities, sometimes very large - and there isn't anyone who can unban you when it happens.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I don't see any solution to that that doesn't end up horribly.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I do.

    Admins should have an ability to unban but not to ban people so essentially to control moderators but not to be moderators themselves. Moderators shouldn't be allowed to moderate more than a couple of communities.

    Alternatively "membership" of Lemmy would be conditional upon acceptance of appeal process where admins of different instance(s) would decide if someone should be unbanned.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    The second part is almost completely impossible to do.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Difficult, yeah. Impossible, no. It could be one of conditions of using the software. But I am not claiming it is easy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Lemmy's license forbids doing this.
    Other software could be developed to use it instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Lemmy's license forbids doing this

    If so that obviously would have to change first.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Other people making compatible software with no such license.

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