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@reddthat.comreencoding is not required in advance, it happens on the fly if needed.
download still needs to be completed first usually, but you can save a lot of time if you compromise in quality.
this is probably somehow related to changes introduced somewhere in 0.19.4, I've been seeing this for months at this point, as we've been on a 0.19.4 pre-release relatively early due to done federation issues
if you're not community banned you might still be instance banned on the community instance, which wouldn't show up in your local instances modlog if the ban happened on a <0.19.4 instance. if the methods pointed out by other comments here fail I suggest you visit the instance of the community and check the site modlog there, searching for your user.
i suspect you're referring to your post to a lemmy.ml community and you have indeed been instance banned there for a limited amount of time.
people on mastodon need to mention a lemmy community to post there. you can't see mastodon posts on lemmy unless they're in a community. comments from lemmy are a pretty bad experience on mastodon I believe.