This morning I tried to reply to a comment in worldnews@lemmy.world, and got a “community ban” alert.

This seemed odd as I had not been informed that I had been banned from said community by the mods. Doing some testing, I realised I was getting the alert when replying to some users but not others. When using via browser I just got a hanging loading bar when trying to reply to said users.

So, I’m trying to work out what the “community ban” alert actually represts, as I’m not banned from said community, does it represent that users have me blocked, that their instance isn’t federated with mine, etc? Any clarification helps.

    • MV (Jerboa dev)@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Jerboa is just showing you the error it got from your instance. I can look into the source code for Lemmy but that won’t be for a while.

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        1 year ago

        Fair enough, I’m guessing maybe it’s a federation issue or something?

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    1 year ago

    You were banned from the community and are no longer allowed to post or comment there, there’s a public record of this in the modlog: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=29397

    The best practice is for the mod to put a comment in when they ban someone about why they did so, but there’s no such comment in your case. You’d have to look back through your post and comment history to try to guess what you did in that community around 2mo ago when the ban happened.

    It’s also a good practice IMO to do temporary bans for first offenses, but the mod in this case appears to have issued a permanent ban, so you’re done interacting in that community unless you can message a mod to request being unbanned.

    Some mods tell you when they take action, but many don’t. It would be cool if Lemmy itself notified you, but it doesn’t… you have to search the modlog to see.

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      I was looking for a way to message the mod team to ask them and see if what the deal was and if we can work it out but couldn’t find a way to do so like Reddit had? Is there no appeal process at all on Lemmy? Seems like an oversight.