Got quite confused by this ban

Edit: context https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/98196510-49ce-40ee-8db5-a8914f7ad0b1.webp

And the comment I responded to:

I don't know how to see who banned me, but I guess the mod thought that my response to the"normal woman" having a body type that is far more idealized than normal was racist since I said the body type probably was a minority among body types? English as second language so I might be in the wrong

The Mod of progressive Politics ([email protected]) removes any opinion they don't like and bans any users that hold these "descenting" opinions. I was banned for pointing out that a

I downvoted maybe half a dozen posts. They were all right-wing bullshit and I realized that's all the user has ever posted so I got out of there. The next day I see more of his junk and go to downvote but can't because I'm banned.

Sure it was a dick move to poke the bear about his lifestyle of only posting things that get downvoted, but he. Went. OFF!

Accusing me of alts, thinking I'm obsessed with him, message after message... I probably have more in my inbox right now but stitching this image together took long enough.

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 [email protected], 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.

Instance is midwest.social. Not a solitary clue who the admin was who did it.

A friend was wondering why they hadn't seen my posts and figured I'd been banned from lemmy.world or just left in general. I went to his instance and saw that in the modlog.

Not a damn clue as to why. There are no post removals, no comment removals, no temp bans and I never got any messages from any of the admins about anything that I did. Just one day, they randomly banned me for racism without rhyme nor reason. I have literally nothing that I can point towards and say "This is the reason why" because they never bothered to do anything other than ban me.

I am many things. I am an asshole, I'm a vindictive bitch, I'm a petty prick, I'm often antagonistic, I'm also a whiny bitch. But racist?

Edit:

Well okay then

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31072292

Summary:

I downvoted pro-AI comments in a post in leftymemes community. It was LLM generated polandball comic (Which is objectively pathetic as fuck) that showed up on my feed, blocked couple of users who I thought were unhinged, and have blocked the whole instance on my client after realizing how rabid these morons are.

I didn't go looking for AI posts like a vigilante.

One user in question got miffed for being downvoted and banned me from places they moderate.

Nearly a thousand treasonous rioters were convicted and needed to be pardoned by the Criminal-in-Chief

I removed this guy's blatantly rule-breaking (in multiple ways) comment, but because he had written it in response to my own comment I also went to the trouble of explaining myself. He decided to escalate his toxic behavior by accusing me of abusing my power anyway, so what other choice did I have but to ban him?

https://lemmy.world/modlog?commentId=17600736

https://lemmy.world/modlog?commentId=17621174

I came up with a riddle and they claimed I was violating a rule. I argued that I was not and got permabanned. It was my first ever post there lol. I only posted there because there's not really a comparable Lemmy sub. Some mods are just so petty and stupid.

https://feddit.org/post/13994826/7165181

Everything I downvoted was because I genuinely do not think it's good. Like meat is not going to cure cancer.

I actually really like eating meat I just try to life a life that gives others room to enjoy this earth too without mutually destroying it.

Please tell me how I am the asshole :)

Has anyone else noticed this community behavior? One mod, he posts topical news, locks the post. Anyone who comments before the post is locked get banned? No rules listed? Strange.

This was removed shortly after an r/Privacy moderator with significant connections to Reddit administration posted this: Upholding our Public Content Policy

Redacting after realizing this was a karma farming bot

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-04/beijing-ai-and-censors-erase-tiananmen-square-massacre/105370772

I posted this in Privacy, and News.ml
They were both removed for "off topic" and "lemmy rules". Good times. It's fun to see them literally censor news reports about censorship in China.

This, by the way, is actual real freedom of speech censorship. It's censoring anyone that talks about the government.

Also, i love that they banned an .ee account for six months. That's just extra special sauce.

Liberalism is when you believe in voting against fascism to lessen the burdens on engaging in actual leftist action, I guess.

Extremely dire turbolib statement here, RIP

Reddit privacy moderators recently censored this content over a day after it was posted. IMO the reason is suspicious.

Accessible at Reddit or Reveddit

(There are no subreddit rules banning "political propaganda" or "character assassination." Nor does this comment appear to rise to either of those accusations: other non-removed comments back up the removed one.)

I commented the following on this post problem is not Netanyahu, it is not Ben Gvir. it is the white supremacist mindset of Israeli public.

This is not new, extremists gain power, they are then making everything they can to stay in power while they slowly turn anyone they can to their side. They use the education system, political systems, laws and the media. Considering that Netanyahu has been in power since 2009 he has literally shaped the political and moral ideology of a significant part of the population. Imagine being 10 yo at 2009, by the time you van vote all you ever knew was Netanyahu. At the end of the day, an adult that is calling for genocide is responsible for their opinions and actions, but this is how a situation where a majority of a country if genocidal happens, with slow, steady and intentional manipulation of the public. Netanyahu and his terrorist goons ARE the problem, but at this point removing them from power is just a small part of the solution. As a kid I always wandered how people can truly think a genocide is a good idea, as an adult I am sad to see that it really is that easy, it really can start with just the wrong people gaining power. And just to be fair, this is very much true about Palestine as well. While the situation is completely different, they too have been under a genocidal and terroristic regime since 2006 and many (probably most) would answer similarly to such a questionnaire about Israelis and Jews. Of course Palestine have had the short end of the stick for all of those years while Israel got to become a developed country. It's just sad to see how the people in power just fuck everyone around them, no one wins, no one is happy, all you get is death, hate and destruction, and of course the reason for all of this: Money, religion, power.

I don't know how to check who the mod was but it seems that they are removing plenty of content, some of which seems to be content that just doesn't support a black and white view of the situation where Palestinians are the only victims and Israelis are all evil (not excusing genocide here)

And the weird thing is that rule one has nothing to do with the comment:

Banned for 'Internet Slapfight' despite the vast majority of my comments being to debunk Hasbara, and disengaging from a Zionist troll when the attacks went from disinformation to personal

Post:

https://lemmy.world/post/30244778

Luckily none of my comments pertaining to the actual issue at hand got deleted, but how this somehow warrants a ban is completely ridiculous.

I do want to promote some better World News comms:

[email protected]

~~[email protected]~~ Avoid due to their support of white Nationalist propagandist Tucker Carlson. See https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/19034187

For obvious reasons I won't be engaging with the lw world news, nor be able to debunk any hasbara there that aims to justify this genocide one way or another

reason: insulting

Apparently having an earnest discussion about a public figure's behavior will now be censored by Proton "mods"

https://lemmy.world/modlog/37655

Looks like they stepped up their modding recently due to unfavourable commentary on the CEOs comments regarding Trump administration

https://protonvpn.com/blog/fight-censorship-2024

With authoritarian governments increasingly turning to censorship to silence dissent, limit information, and manipulate public opinion, Proton VPN and the anti-censorship services it provides have never been more critical.

🤡

I guess CEOs have feelings too?

Keep digging this hole Andy, clearly you don't understand who pays for your services.

offending content that was scabbed on lemmy.world instance (without modlog entiresi) but can still be reviewed on thebrainbin.org

https://thebrainbin.org/m/[email protected]/t/812127/Proton-VPN-is-now-even-safer-faster-and-more-efficient/comment/6397577#entry-comment-6397577

Feddit.uk post: https://feddit.uk/post/29902751

Blahaj instances list: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/instances

I have been banned from unpopularopinion for exposing person defending genocide and use of human shields by IDF.

One of the users in unpopularopinion thread was complaining about someone calling him a "fascist"

https://feddit.uk/comment/17531487

In response I did paste a screenshot of his comment claiming IDF are not using human shields, it is Hamas who do that:

https://feddit.uk/comment/17529782

... And the mod of unpopularopinion banned me. I can only guess he is a another genocide apologist.

I have never posted, commented or did anything else in this community and only found out when I wanted to make a post about the GNU Taler in Switzerland.

I have been a vocal critic of Israeli Warcrimes and Nettanyahus authoritarianism, calling him a potential Fascist. But I guess that wasn't Anti-Israel enough and therefore Zionism.

I guess this is a modern-day example of "the revolution devours its own children".

As you might have noticed, there was a bit of drama lately around the moderation of [email protected] and feddit.org in general, with a result being the creation of [email protected].

So, I just checked the modlogs for unrelated reasons and stumbled upon this:

I have never engaged with this new community nor have I participated in any discussion around the aforementioned issues before the ban. I made one comment yesterday that refers to the discussion and one comment three days ago arguing about the way the feddit admins argued their point and stating the holocaust was on a much larger scale than the genocide against Palestine.

I don't know if I want this situation to be remedied though as this to me looks like guilty by association (I engage a lot with communities on feddit.org since I'm german and it's the largest german instance with a lot of relevant communities, so, duh) but I want to know if I oversaw something or if this is the style of moderation in the new community or the whole instance.

I'm pretty sure awful.systems shadowbanned me for disagreeing with them on one topic one time + (a bit of an uncivil comment in hindsight). Mods completely silent in DMs.

Comment in question:

Look at these two pages of the same thread:

Not making this up. Images link to the posts. More:

Kinda feels like this, lol:

Here's the ban action:

Their mod history is fucky, shows mod history 3 years ago before showing what happened 3 or 4 days ago. Feel free to verify. (Bear in mind that you will need to move forward a page or two if you read this later).

If I'm banned, why can i still post? Also, wtf was Self on about? I've only had positive experiences before getting banned. You can literally see in the comment above that I've gotten positive sentiment before. ASAIK, I've not posted on awful.systems other than the times above.

Most importantly, I wouldn't care if it was a month ban or 3 month ban even but like perma/shadow ban? for what? a mild insult and disagreeing with your circle jerk one time?

I genuinely liked the community on that instance. It had good takes ~80% of the time. Shame.