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I'm banned from a server I've never heard of because someone I've never heard of reported me to myself for posting a picture of my own grocery store to my own subreddit. (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 4 months ago by qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org to c/modabuse@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

I'm so sorry that happened to me.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I assume by "subreddit" you mean Lemmy Community?

So, you created and moderate !buyselltrade@lemmy.sdf.org , you posted something there. Someone clicked "Create Report", and as a result you (the moderator of that community) received a report. Naturally, you didn't ban yourself. But, somehow you were banned from discuss.tchncs.de? Do the admins of that site receive a report if one of their users reports something? Or, was there a separate report that they acted on?

In a way though, I guess this is working as intended with distributed moderation. If someone had a Hitler fan club community on their own server nobody could make them shut it down, but the existence of that community might be enough to warrant banning them and/or defederating their instance. But, I'd assume there was a separate report requesting that you be banned from their community that went to their moderators.

What's funny about this is that the complaint was "Med spam". Lemmy is a "pull" design, you don't get community posts sent to you, you have to go out looking for them. So, this is a bit like choosing to go to a steakhouse and then leaving a bad review because they didn't have good vegan options.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

But, I'd assume there was a separate report requesting that you be banned from their community that went to their moderators.

Looks like they just manually banned the poor guy.

[–] qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm working nights & saving up so I can afford to go to computer school so I can learn how to click on the right buttons to surf the information superweb and to learn the information I want. I didn't especially want this information, but it reminded me of what I'm working nights & saving up for.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This might be useful, it's from my other channel.

[–] qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

Oh great! Another tube I have to learn how to subscribe! FML!

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but, you got any more of them granules?

[–] hate2bme@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

Haha. The addict in me first thought, what kinda granules my dude got?

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

Lemmy... Free speech platform or hurtmyfeefees censorship network?