It's very "reddit like" abuse of power behavior.

And is honestly something instance admins should be able to crack down on.

It's easy enough to defederate from instances that are toxic, but it's not so easy to do the same for individual communities that are mass owned by one or two people who abuse their power.

Someone else already figured it out.
It's kinda a convoluted way to troll people I guess... Meta trolling? Preemptive trolling?
Trying to develop software for crowds of people is hard (I'm working on a decentralized, zero mod, anonymous app right now... In theory but I have problems).
There's always someone finding a loophole to abuse people with. My first instinct was: don't let mods ban people from comms they've never interacted with before, but then there are real trolls just trying to harass people on as many places as possible... So it makes sense to get ahead of them.
I guess it's up to the admins to remove the account? But they can just create a new account, another 20 comms, and then spam people's mod logs.
I suppose it's growing pains of lemmy; gotta make it easy in order to grow, but then it's too easy.
My solution is: make it harder to create a community for new users.
Or maybe, if a user has never interacted with w community, don't put it in their mod log when they've been banned?
Or at least make them justify the ban so there's some record of exactly how they're making stuff up.
My only guess is that about a month before I got banned for saying, (and I am sorry and I really am not trying to hurt anyone and I'm not invalidating anyone's existence)
Is that "nonbinary" is not the most accurate term for people because it, seems to me, to imply that gender is binary. The offensive part is because I think it's popular because the concept of "binary" is popular... (I'm a programmer, I love binary).
It's not like, a big deal to me or anything, I just think there's a better term out there or waiting to be made. non-gendered or something makes more sense but doesn't sound as cool...
I stated my opinion indelicatly and I get why my post was removed... But not being called transphobic or banned from that com for life because I questioned the temporary ban, and then a month later 20 more comms like I'm a Nazi just trying to harass people or something.

I have room for improvement and can be nicer (less "toxic") but just silencing people forever is pretty common with, let's say politicized topics, and counterproductive.

That's actually true.

I had a "block 1 idiot per day" policy until I caught the few "big fish" without really knowing it.

one or more bigots keep making lots of harassment accounts to attack draconic neo. they spam posts like this and the trans communities too with their shit

No clue. I came in here thinking it was about one thing, then I see people arguing about different shit. lol

Piefed communities are creepy. It's a platform based on the concept of those dead duplicate communities trying to boycott the Lemmy devs.

The piefed communities that come across my feed are so curated and empty it's always just a mod fighting with every other comment.

That night be there antibot automation. You can appeal if it wasn't you. It's their current attempt to try to combat some AI bots that have been around on Lemmy.

Yeah that's dirty.
You could probably appeal those bans, but just autobanning everyone that reminds you of something bad isn't a very good way to build community.
Those 3 communities are probably just one guy with a precrime banbot, btw

Yeah, I was so excited about piefed when it first came out. But the thoughtcriming and social rating based on people disgreeing with you, took the shine off pretty quick.

Late here but I just checked your piefed account. This particular ban you're referring to was on lemmy.world based communities, so it had nothing whatsoever to do with Piefed as software, or any Piefed instance admin.

Doesn't help that admins have at times decided to encourage alt'ing to bypass bans "because if they are good faith participants, they won't get banned again". The problem is the whole federated system means accommodating different standards.

As a proponent of any decent implementation of the idea, I'd just like to point out that if we could select our own moderators for communities, a lot of these alts and sock puppets would probably have been handled by the people I would have aggregated to the list instead of just waiting for the time zone or availability to roll over to the official ones. A lot of these are blatantly obvious.

Lemmy is terrible software for stopping bad actors. I feel like the devs designed it.

To be fair, it's easy to see the problem on Lemmy. Every place has it but Reddit and the like make it difficult to notice.

They've been on a tear lately it seems.

infamous

Yeah that checks out.

Thank you, fellow enthusiast