As the title says, i recently got banned from lemmy.world because they use regex (or a similiar mechanism) to ban someone instance-wide even if you write that thing on another instance
The mod log for whoever is interessed: https://feddit.it/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=20251941

Anyway, the culprit comment was this: https://feddit.it/comment/20981739

Apparently it banned me because i cited the blacklist that contained some URL or word that .world doesn't like
Also, i had to use this 2nd account to write this post because i couldn't access this community in my main one (it's not an instance problem because when logged out i can find the community on feddit.it)

Honestly, i hope that .world admins wake up and understand that automated bans with regex are not the way and doing that on other instances is even worse!

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[–] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I once got one for linking to a domain commonly used by spammers. I forget the context of why exactly, but it got reversed pretty quick without a big fuss. Given the volume there compared to others some type of automation would be needed without paid mods on staff.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    The problem is that they ban you for something you wrote on another instance! The comment was on a lemmy.ml community on my feddit.it account, that's something they shouldn't even care about to begin with!

    And still, the automation is just some bot that check for a regex so it's not that great either...

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