I'm not a troll, I just call other people out for their BS.
I think most of lemmy.today is bad faith astroturfing.
This is not the first time !PapaSkwat@lemmy.today has preemptively banned me from a community I'm pretty sure I've never interacted with.
This is a warning for others. Do not assume posts on Lemmy.today are real or in good faith.
Here is a related post with similar circumstances.
Yeah, it's a PTB for sure. Skwat is hinky as fuck often enough that even though a preemptive ban isn't automatically PTB, them doing so makes me assume it is until proven otherwise.
Mind you, I ain't hatin, just pointing out that the mod in question is of uncertain motivation imo.
I was literally just in a ModAbuse comm complaining about the same person! I got the pre-ban as well, as if I wanted to join a comm about celebrating mediocrity.
DonaldJMusk is a troll and a baby.
OMG who gives a shit about voting, these people are out of their minds
doesnt seem like community anyone should use anyway if they have admins like that. so maybe he did you a favor?
Wait, did they label you a fascist too? I mean ad-homs/pejoratives like that tell me all I need to know.
"I wouldn't be a member of any club that would have me".
I'd wear the ban proudly.
Yeah Lemmy mods really have nothing better to do
Man, I wonder how many crappy comms I've never heard of have banned me because I downvote something that appeared on the front page?
Haha, fuck 'em.
Feels more like lemmy.today is just a terrible place
How much of a loser would a person need to be to look at voting patterns to do pre-emptive bans?
lemmy.today is basically lemmy flavored maga. I wish I could block users by instance of origin so I never have to see their trash comments.
It might have been an automated ban. They offered the possibility to contest it by DM to clear it if there was a mistake. Did you do that?
I say it because it might just been some automatic trigger and if discussed the ban might be removed. Or no. But I lack that info to make a judgement here.
Why are you (presumably) subscribing to AI communities when you hate AI?
Don't call someone a fascist and expect to participate in their communities.
You also called my instance fascist and anti-woke. Let's take a look at the sidebar.
I run four of the five top communities on the instance. I guess a feminist anarcho-socialist posting about art, cool rocks and independent news is astroturfing to you.
Is the fascism in the room with you right now?
Just so everyone knows in case it's unclear: in OP's attached picture and example, OP put that label, "FASCIST" beside my name in his app, that's what that shows. Just in case you are curious about that word being beside my name in his screencap. I'm not a fascist, regardless of the name he assigns to me in his app.
Not sure if I’m allowed to post here to defend myself, so sorry if I’m breaking etiquette. I will only respond to OP, regardless of other comments in this thread, so that it doesn't look like I'm here to cause drama. I have responded others here now, becuase mods said it was ok to.
First off, OP, you can ignore my reply from earlier today. I thought you were talking about a post I had just made in FuckCars, so if I seemed completely clueless, it’s because I was. I didn’t realize you were referring to a ban from my community. I didn't know what you were talking about because the message seemed so random.
Now back to me banning you from my new community, it's because you said this about me (https://infosec.pub/comment/22883460):
"https://lemmy.today/c/news is a fascist anti-woke instance, and @PapaSkwat@lemmy.today will ban you for downvoting or disagreeing in anyway.
I’m surprised they even posted this article but I think it may just be to grow their terrible community.
Point is, don’t crosspost them. If you think it should be shared then just make a newpost, don’t give them traffic or normalization."
You said that in response to me posting this article: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/
That isn’t a fascist article, and I don’t post fascist content.
You said my community is "anti-woke" whatever that means (it's not, based on how I view that silly term), and you said it's a fascist community. None of that is true.
Yes, I ban serial downvoters too and I realize this is controversial. Many people say that votes don't even count and that I shouldn't be a baby. If they don't count, then why use them to come to my community and just downvote every single post?
That's a hypothetical question, because I'm not sure if I'm allowed to respond to other people than OP. So I'm not ignoring anyone, I'm just not trying to break rules in this community.
I'm prebanned from plenty of communities that I've never posted in or interacted with too. So I'm not immune to this effect. I just start my own community to post content I feel should be out there.
I'm not wanting to kick a hornets nest here, just trying to clear up OP's concerns.
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