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).

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
    1·
    2 months ago

    Is that actually a native lemmy feature? I think some servers do it as a bot to clear content and prevent interaction but unless I understand correctly the issue of handling users interacting with local communities after receiving a site ban hasn’t yet been addressed. It’s been proposed here to add a table to federate site bans to communities but that seemingly hasn’t been touched or implemented yet.

    • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 months ago

      It’s in lemmy code since 0.19.5, kinda, but only triggers local community bans after a local site ban.
      There’s plenty of weird (to me) federation behavior.
      Mostly… an instance admin cannot remove a comment from a local user if it’s on a remote community. I mean… you can, but it doesn’t federate to the remote community.

      There’s a few other things that are counterintuitive

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yeah that is weird, an admin should be able to remove a local user’s comments or posts even if they are on remote communities.

        Also the automatically applying local bans after site ban seems like a very hacky workaround and doesn’t work well when new communities are created since those won’t have the person’s ban in them. That’s why I really hope they work on including site bans in communities, that way we just wouldn’t need to worry about it.