It may not be that long compared to some of yours out here. It stings because that account was my main account, so many memories in it and I even met my wife through it. Unfortunately, I have recently experienced what I can only describe as sabotage on my account.
I don’t know much about how Reddit and moderation works behind the scenes but recently everything I post in different subs keeps getting auto-removed without any explanation whatsoever. If I message the mods of those subs, then there are only three responses: 1) no response whatsoever, 2) sarcasm and unkindness without actually assisting me, and worse 3) a permanent ban without further elaboration.
Googling “how to report abusive Reddit mods” comes up with a bunch of threads all saying the same thing: there is no way to report them. Additionally, I have encountered individuals who dismiss or deny the existence of moderator abuse within the platform. I’ve decided it’s just not worth my mental stress to put up with this circus and just start anew and keep a low profile. I’m also trying out here in Lemmy, maybe this is better.
Please be better.
We’re talking about rogue moderators, though. Instances have their own separate moderation rules and that’s the intent behind how things are organized in the fediverse.
What OP experienced on reddit can’t happen here due to modlogs, and rogue moderation usually is called out here publicly.
Consistent issues with an instance also have the defederation option.
There are for sure problems with this all, but I wouldn’t say that rogue moderation is as easy here as it was on reddit.
Except you can get banned for something not in the rules. Some subs saying stuff like “no rules” and then keep banning people for memes. “No rules except don’t be a dick” and lots of regular people get bans anyway. There was even drama between startrek subs because that was happening. I managed to get a permaban on a community with an explanation saying “ACAB”. A public modlog doesn’t mean shit. A user can’t do much against powertripping mods. It absolutely is as easy as it was on reddit, even moreso because there is more of the same community on different instances.
Except on reddit you don’t even know you’re banned half the time, and have no way to find out.
All of what you’re describing happens on reddit and you wouldn’t even know for sure if your ACAB comment was the thing that got you banned.
I’m not saying that it’s fixed here. But it is improved more or less compared to reddit.
… What’s your point. OP said “lemmy isn’t immune to this problem”. I don’t care about whataboutism, we are talking lemmy now.
I didn’t get banned for saying “ACAB”. I got banned with the reason saying “ACAB”.
Why would that stop anything?
Because the problem OP experienced involves not knowing what’s going on and nobody believed them.
To be honest I had a moderator ban me for proposing an improvement to the sub.
The modlog is public, but most people don’t care. And the instance admin didn’t want to get involved as that would be “admin power tripping” (which I understand)