It's very "reddit like" abuse of power behavior.

And is honestly something instance admins should be able to crack down on.

It's easy enough to defederate from instances that are toxic, but it's not so easy to do the same for individual communities that are mass owned by one or two people who abuse their power.

Someone else already figured it out.
It's kinda a convoluted way to troll people I guess... Meta trolling? Preemptive trolling?
Trying to develop software for crowds of people is hard (I'm working on a decentralized, zero mod, anonymous app right now... In theory but I have problems).
There's always someone finding a loophole to abuse people with. My first instinct was: don't let mods ban people from comms they've never interacted with before, but then there are real trolls just trying to harass people on as many places as possible... So it makes sense to get ahead of them.
I guess it's up to the admins to remove the account? But they can just create a new account, another 20 comms, and then spam people's mod logs.
I suppose it's growing pains of lemmy; gotta make it easy in order to grow, but then it's too easy.
My solution is: make it harder to create a community for new users.
Or maybe, if a user has never interacted with w community, don't put it in their mod log when they've been banned?
Or at least make them justify the ban so there's some record of exactly how they're making stuff up.
My only guess is that about a month before I got banned for saying, (and I am sorry and I really am not trying to hurt anyone and I'm not invalidating anyone's existence)
Is that "nonbinary" is not the most accurate term for people because it, seems to me, to imply that gender is binary. The offensive part is because I think it's popular because the concept of "binary" is popular... (I'm a programmer, I love binary).
It's not like, a big deal to me or anything, I just think there's a better term out there or waiting to be made. non-gendered or something makes more sense but doesn't sound as cool...
I stated my opinion indelicatly and I get why my post was removed... But not being called transphobic or banned from that com for life because I questioned the temporary ban, and then a month later 20 more comms like I'm a Nazi just trying to harass people or something.

I have room for improvement and can be nicer (less "toxic") but just silencing people forever is pretty common with, let's say politicized topics, and counterproductive.

They've been on a tear lately it seems.

Yeah that checks out.

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Thank you, fellow enthusiast

Piefed communities are creepy. It's a platform based on the concept of those dead duplicate communities trying to boycott the Lemmy devs.

The piefed communities that come across my feed are so curated and empty it's always just a mod fighting with every other comment.

one or more bigots keep making lots of harassment accounts to attack draconic neo. they spam posts like this and the trans communities too with their shit

Doesn't help that admins have at times decided to encourage alt'ing to bypass bans "because if they are good faith participants, they won't get banned again". The problem is the whole federated system means accommodating different standards.

As a proponent of any decent implementation of the idea, I'd just like to point out that if we could select our own moderators for communities, a lot of these alts and sock puppets would probably have been handled by the people I would have aggregated to the list instead of just waiting for the time zone or availability to roll over to the official ones. A lot of these are blatantly obvious.

That's actually true.

I had a "block 1 idiot per day" policy until I caught the few "big fish" without really knowing it.

This was a problem with Reddit that Lemmy never attempted to solve: you piss one person off (maybe not even through any fault of your own) and rather than just block you, they ban you from every community they moderate.

However, Reddit didn't really have a solution to that. Lemmy kind of does: you can make any community you want, and communities that pull crap like this might be avoided by users who don't tolerate that kind of thing. Or they might not, but the users have more power here.

One thing Reddit was good for was, one mod would make communities like, say, "iPhone 16," "iPhone 17," "iPhone 18," and so on up to like 50, and then lock them until that phone was announced. Same with game series, movie franchises etc. Then when people opened rival communities, they would brigade them, harass them, post things there with dummy accounts that would violate Reddit rules and get the community banned, stuff like that.

Lemmy isn't going to fix all of Reddit's problems because Lemmy is trying to be an alternative to Reddit, which means the more people Reddit pisses off, the more of them are going to end up here and most of them are going to do the same shit here that they did there. And until people show them that that behaviour will not be tolerated... they're just gonna keep doing it.