AFAIK it has always been this way. I don't think I've been banned from an entire instance, but who knows? If I have, I wasn't told about it. Do they only allow interaction from people registered to their instance?
AFAIK it has always been this way. I don't think I've been banned from an entire instance, but who knows? If I have, I wasn't told about it. Do they only allow interaction from people registered to their instance?
I commented once on one of that instance's communities when an instance admin was mass banning people for ridiculous reasons and was told by some of the mods that all I was doing was "giving them work" by reporting violations of their own rules. Ever since, I've had them blocked.
Seeing the reason for why you're banned tells me I made the right choice.
oh my god, what a snowflake mod. Not even a real reason, I have banned people from my instance. Reason? Racism. Homophobia. Transphobia. Never "republican".
What's weird is I have definitely been very liberal over there, I am somewhat active in !iowa@midwest.social and have never seen anything. Do the admins just have one snowflake mod?
Wait, they said nothing productive was coming from the thread, including themselves, then locked it? I'm a little confused, what was the ban for?
It's not loading for me. Is that all it says?
If so that's strike two for me WRT that place.
!theonion@sh.itjust.works just in case
And the instance's sidebar:
A lemmy server for, but not limited to, leftists in the Midwest USA
Welcome Midwest social members to other instances, when they come. They were always very welcoming to me and I am grieved that this is happening.
Looks like you got banned for 1 year 2 months ago.
This technically violates rule #5 but I feel like it's a valuable information and discussion to have available.