Edit: @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com Contacted the moderator who did it on my behalf who admitted that this was a mistake, he sends his apologies. This incident though does highlight though the need for ban notifications as well as the need for a modmail system to contact community and site moderators.
I have left the post up with the original contents bellow as I feel it would be wrong to delete the post and rob people of the valuable information it contains, both in the post itself and in the comment section.
I messaged a mod from the community, not sure if that was the one who did it but this was weird. Not sure if it’s power-tripping probably a mistake but it’s certainly weird and seems like a knee jerk reaction since I didn’t have activity in those last 10 days (I checked for votes too). Also no other bans in the modlog for “sock puppet account” so I don’t even know why I would be singled out.
Why would someone think I was a sock puppet account? Because I have multiple accounts on different instances? Really weird…
Account is @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world, I didn’t post from that account since I try to keep each account on each separate instance (helps prevent accidental vote manipulation).
It was an instance ban, I guess they did it because they do it for most instance bans because people who are instance banned can still interact with the community on other instances. Which to be fair, is a problem with how site bans are currently implemented in Lemmy still is a very weird and cryptic reason to ban someone though. Are Midwest.social right wing? They don’t say they are right-wing but I know many self-proclaimed leftists who are actually right wing so it wouldn’t surprise me.
IDK what they are. I don’t even know what I said that got me banned, because I was never notified. I’ve only ever interacted with the community through their posts in the Everything feed. I’d say based on the overreaction, and the reason given, that the particular mod who banned me is right-wing, and power-tripping. I’m occasionally rude, and rarely serious, so it’s possible I said something ban worthy, but I doubt it.
Definitely seems like they might be right wing, and likely power-tripping. I’d suggest making a post here about it, bring more attention to the issue, at the very least it could help people know to stay away from those communities and possibly that instance as a whole.