I went to block someone who had nothing to add to a discussion other than a personal attack and discovered I'd already blocked them.

I tried re-blocking them, but their next comment still came through to my inbox; that's 2/2 4/4* that ignored the block.

I'd report this as a bug on the GitHub, but Microsoft doesn't like that I didn't give them a more common email address to sign up.

Screenshot to prove I tried the preferred way:

* edited to update bug occurrence count

There was a lively discussion under the following post:

https://lemmy.world/post/53695307

Under which, I received this reply in my inbox:

https://lemmy.world/comment/26567564

Both are now inaccessible, both from the lemmy.world I was accessing them through and after a fruitless search for the original post on their instance. All I see now, which you likely see as well, is an unspecified "Error!"

I perused their mod log but it's like the post (and its comments) no longer exist.

How would I investigate what happened myself, apart from asking their admins/mods? Is this an intentional act or a bug?

Despite continually running into them dog-piling me in shared spaces, where they defer to their mod/admin actions as gospel without critical thought, I am embarrassed that this only occurred to me today.

I've tried to add a Display Name a dozen times now, settling on one with spaces and capital letters but nothing else other than alphanumerics. With everything I've tried, the "Save" button seems to work (in that clicking it shows a pinwheel and changes its color), but no errors appear and the display name doesn't take.

Is there a character limit? No special characters? Something else?

I love the memes that pour out of [hostile community 1] and [hostile community 2], but inevitably when I participate in the comments under their posts, I'm bombarded with accusations of "trolling," "imperialist apologia," "racism," etc. because I disagree with some aspects of the the hyper-auth-left.

I just want a community that makes me laugh "hehe, that's a good point about that problem with the US" that isn't overrun with people doing mental gymnastics to paint anything I say as the worst thing anyone's ever said in the history of the internet and recreationally banning me for it.

Does such a place exist on the Fediverse (yet)?

A moderator claimed that a removal done on their instance was an admin, not a moderator, despite what the log says.

Suffice it to say my trust level of that community's moderators is relatively low - even for random strangers on the internet - but I fully acknowledge they could be telling the truth so I was hoping to get a public, third party, second opinion as far as whether or not that's the case.

Semi-related, but I have also encountered moderators claiming they have no idea which moderator on the team took an action, which if true is also a bit annoying as bad moderators can claim it wasn't them when it really was.

On the bright side, it's another Fediverse Win compared to Reddit, who I'm sure you all know doesn't have any mod logs whatsoever. The admin and moderator transparency culture there is also extremely limited, but at least here there are logs at all, even if they sometimes get the Flock treatment of: "reason: whatever"

P.S. I'm not implying individual moderators or admins should be identified by username in the logs, as that would almost certainly lead to harassment.

I was on a ... notorious community from a notorious instance lemmy.world is still federated with the other day, engaging in some spirited debate (dispelling a straw-man that generalizes a group I arguably belong to that is vilified in that instance as their favored punching bag), when I noticed a reply to a comment that wouldn't load. Backing out back to my profile, I noticed all of my comments under that post are missing.

I logged out and checked via their instance, and the mystery reply turned out to be a moderator of that community (that I haven't blocked) jumping in to add to the dogpile I was receiving. I coincidentally also saw the red Banned From Community next to my username.

Their instance doesn't appear to have a Moderation History option to click on like I'm used to seeing on lemmy.world to see if/when/why I was banned.

Is there some fediverse feature I'm unaware of where I can look into what's going on?

I DM'ed their moderators as I was recently told that was the only "modmail" feature the fediverse has, so maybe one of them will shed some light on what's going on:

As you can see, one of them is "Banned" (from what?), but strangely, they were the one involved in the discussion I mentioned above.

One of them replied, confirming I was banned:

Still wondering if there's a way to see this kind of thing from our instance, as I didn't and still don't see any way to do so via theirs.

I commented on a post a few days ago where a few of us lemmings were speculating as to the nature of a QoL bug that was affecting us.

I went to revisit the comment as I discovered another instance of the bug, but I got a "server error" when I tried to return. As it's still visible from my profile, I don't think the comment was removed.

I tried the link for the post itself and I got the same error.

I went to find the post in the community's feed via title and date and I don't see it.

I see easy links to check my comment for both my moderation history as well as that comment's moderation history, but the post itself remains a mystery to me.

I suspect there's a way to sift through a community's entire moderation history to poke around for that post, but I can't find it, plus for a bigger community it must be like finding a needle in a haystack.

Any way to do this, preferably easily?

It seems like no matter how many times I set my language to English in my profile settings, I have to set my language to English when I submit any comment or post every time.

I don't know what happens when I just ignor that drop-down, but I'd like to avoid reinforcing the Americentric Internet issue where non-English speakers have to sort through a slew of posts they can't (or don't want to) read in English just because that's the default and nobody bothered to tag them.

Put differently, if say, a Spanish reader gets posts that are labeled Spanish as well as any post that are not labeled, there's a good chance the vast majority of posts are English, which is probably pretty annoying. I don't want to do that to people.

I believe one or more moderators of an instance are acting in bad faith. As I understand it, Lemmy does not have a modmail function to address the issue with the team, so I need to seek out the instance admin?

How do I:

1. Find out who that is

2. Contact them

I see no indication towards either on the community's side bar and I don't think there's a support@[instance] community.

Today, for the first time on Lemmy, I received a message about posting being forbidden from VPNs.