Even for a rule violation an immediate permaban for a regular poster is just egregious. PTB

EDIT: Seems like we didn't have the full picture here and the user in question has been told multiple times that the mods considers their art "furry art". I'm not going to judge whether the rule against furry art is good or not, but I withdraw my PTB judgment because the op was warned after all.

I think Tywèle having prejudice against people she considers furries is a red flag in my book maybe she didn't start that rule but she's clearly enforcing it with prejudice. Something good to keep in mind, maybe she didn't know it but anti-furry sentiment is frequently used as a smoke screen to cover up queerphobia. I can't say that she's using it for that, but anti-furry sentiment has a bad reputation for a reason. And she already was giving me bad vibes before.

Also I did very recently create a new Digital Art community on Pawb.social !digitalart@pawb.social despite being on pawb.social it's not exclusively a furry art community, it is a general purpose digital art community that people like you can post your art in, without having to worry about assholes like the mod who banned you.

The rule is "furry or anthro related". Even if your art isn't strictly furry, from the one or two I see in your post history, it certainly has the same vibe as that genre so I'd call it "related". Doesn't really seem like a power trip, especially since they recommended other communities. I don't see that they acted out of prejudice or spite from your explanation.

The mod you talked to didn't ban you according to your modlog.

So far I was only able to recover these posts:

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The powertripping is baked into the rules, which is rather common for small niche communities, and a poor fit for general, broad categories. Like... 'art'.

Very strange rules there.

Traditional art is allowed, and the community is called "digital art."

Tywele isn't the mod who banned you, or removed your posts.

I’m not going to download external apps to open chats just for this

Lemmy has direct messages built in, she likely meant this.

Looking through the images themselves, I'd personally consider them furry except the last one that got you banned, so PTB I suppose.

It seems like I need to clear something up here as I have not seen any screenshots of the modlog that show which mod took actions against your content so here is one from https://phtn.app/modlog?user=23220995 where you can see who took action in the modlog:

Here you can clearly see that I did in fact not take action against your posts on !digitalart@lemmy.world and only against your posts in !imaginarymerfolk@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I have maybe taken one action as a mod in the Digital Art community in my time as mod so I was never really an active mod of that community.

And as a few people already mentioned: yes I meant that you can contact people through built-in direct messages here on Lemmy. And it's really not hard to find, just click on the profile of a user and the button is right there:

I hope this clears everything up.

Edit: And the reason why I didn't appeal the ban or didn't take any further action is because I don't want to be a mod in that community anyway and want nothing to do with this. I took like 1 minute to figure out what happened and just summarized it to you to make it clear why you were banned by someone else and then took action on the posts in my own community. And because I was the one who responded I'm now dragged through the mud. I find it horrible how I'm accused of being queerphobic/homophobic/transphobic by people without them knowing the full story.

Edit2: Here are screenshots from the modlog to see my activity in that community and how I've tried to remove myself as mod multiple times:

They're trying to force things on me, lies, wow, what a lovely place Lemmy is! I appreciate those who offer me support, even those who are ambiguous. Unfortunately, there are many people who seem allergic to research and don't understand that my art went months without being banned. The moderation dates are from when the post was published, and I know this because, unlike some, I realized the ban happened a week ago, and before that, my drawings remained untouched because they always reappeared. It doesn't even matter anymore whether I believe it or not; the outcome isn't going to change, and I'll continue with this unfair ban. But at least I defended myself. That art community is a mess, and many of the comments only reinforce the idiocy of all this; they always turn a plea for help into a circus. Grow up! It's all a race to see who's right instead of reasoning. I've been on the internet long enough to know who's an idiot and who isn't. This will be my last comment on the subject because they are truly exhausting, and I can be sure that I told the truth.

Como decimos nosotros en estas situaciones: Cállense gringos.