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

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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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[–] 69 points 1 year ago (13 children)
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[–] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (57 children)

Y'know, concentrating power in the hands of a single person / group defeats the purpose of decentralisation.

I can understand if the damage is limited to communities within a single instance, but when a ban is so far-reaching - across so many instances - it makes me wonder what's the point of choosing Lemmy over, say, Reddit.

It's still the same problem again, just with different people in charge - like Bluesky vs Twitter.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, the problem of modreach is definitely not a solved problem. The other problem, of all discourse being directly controllable from on high by a profit-driven company, however, is solved by lemmy. I believe that was the original issue lemmy was meant to handle. And that problem does seem to be solved. We'll just have to handle the problem of public official reach the way we normally would.

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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    the... scales... of justice are often harsh

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  • [–] [S] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    The mod in common across all these servers is @Sunshine@lemmy.ca and her other alternate accounts on various servers.

    Sunshine, if you see this, this is a pretty overkill response from you over what is a joke about the lengths people go to to lie to themselves. If you're thinking it was a bad joke still deserving a ban, at least diminish the sentence length down from a month to a few days instead. I will edit the post to communicate the lessened ban length.

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    [–] 42 points 1 year ago* (23 children)

    Yikes, a mass ban over multiple communities for that? PTB

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    The ban across multiple communities is not intentional. I just meant to ban them from !vegan@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I was not used to Tesseract's ui. But even that was definitely jumping the gun upon rereading the joke.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    PTB, if you were banned from vegan Comms I wouldn't really care, but a joke getting you banned from multiple non related Comms over several instances? Now that is crazy

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago (19 children)
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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Oh yeah ... that mod. Not the first time they did that, but this might be the pettiest one, yet.

    PTB for sure.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Seems weird that you got banned for a comment but the comment itself wasn't removed.

    Anyway I think bans very often mean, "Your comment made me angry, so as a mod or admin I found a stick I can hit you with." And when it comes down to it, people who run websites don't have to publish anything they (or their proxies) don't like.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    PTB - The humor could use a bit of work, that joke was reeling in so slowly, just flopping around like a....

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I didn't know PETA modded communities on Lemmy

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This platform just doesn't get satire or sarcasm, does it?

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Fuck, i liked Sunshine too...

    PTB

    Glad they at least reversed it after getting caught

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I honestly think substantial chunk of Lemmy mods are worse than these on Reddit. Just look at pro Israeli censorship on feddit or some ridiculous world mods actions.

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