Instance is midwest.social. Not a solitary clue who the admin was who did it.

A friend was wondering why they hadn’t seen my posts and figured I’d been banned from lemmy.world or just left in general. I went to his instance and saw that in the modlog.

Not a damn clue as to why. There are no post removals, no comment removals, no temp bans and I never got any messages from any of the admins about anything that I did. Just one day, they randomly banned me for racism without rhyme nor reason. I have literally nothing that I can point towards and say “This is the reason why” because they never bothered to do anything other than ban me.

I am many things. I am an asshole, I’m a vindictive bitch, I’m a petty prick, I’m often antagonistic, I’m also a whiny bitch. But racist?

Edit:

Well okay then

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      33·
      3 days ago

      That’s the only guess I got.

      I went to midwest.social and looked at my own profile. Gives me a general timeframe of when I was banned. One of the last comments I made that was federated to that instance was this comment.

      Context is easy to make out, but the dude was saying that constant reporting on deaths in Palestine was unhelpful because it would desensitize everyone to the death and make them expect it.

      The only thing I can think of is that one of the admins of midwest.social is aggressively zionist or just completely misunderstood that comment.

      • saltesc@lemmy.world
        102·
        3 days ago

        Ooooh. This was in that era when being pro-Israelian or pro-Palestinian meant everyone not of your view was racist. All the extremies were clambering to bag that rhetoric for themselves. Racism is obviously a fntastic card to have in the narcissists’ deck, but it needs to stick to something first so in those opening rounds everything from anyone on any side is “racism”.

        And let’s be honest; the odds of a moderator being a narcissist is higher than the normals

        • FelixCress@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 days ago

          This was in that era when being pro-Israelian or pro-Palestinian meant everyone not of your view was racist

          It is not that much different now, protesting genocide is apparently “antisemitic” according to some. I have been banned by some tool not a long time ago for exposing a genocide apologist.

          • saltesc@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            You can get technical and point out that Palestinians are obviously a Senetic culture too. Basically most of what we now know as the Middle East is/was.

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          41·
          3 days ago

          This was in that era when being pro-Israelian or pro-Palestinian meant everyone not of your view was racist

          When Israel got the benefit of the doubt, I guess some progress has been made.

          Also, if this is true, it supports my broader thesis that modding is largely a censorship exercise.

      • LWD@lemm.ee
        6·
        3 days ago

        Can’t you edit your removed comment to see what the contents were?

        • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          17·
          3 days ago

          Sorry for being unclear. I never had an account on midwest.social. Midwest.social sitebanned my lemmy.world account so no one on midwest.social can see my posts or comments.

          When you’re banned from an instance, they stop federating your content to their instance. So you can get a general timeframe of when the account was banned because the comments and posts will stop appearing. They all show up as “removed” but it still tells you when it was removed and what post it was on.

          I then went to my lemmy.world account and searched up those old posts. I looked at the comments that I made around that time and the only one I could find that was even remotely touching on race was the one I linked above.

          • LWD@lemm.ee
            2·
            2 days ago

            But you see, it was I who was unclear…

            I think if you tap on your comment and attempt to edit it, some clients let you access what you wrote before it got removed.

            • Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              1 day ago

              Well now I’m just confused because that doesn’t make any sense. The comments were removed on Midwest.social. My account is not. How am I supposed to click edit on a comment that’s on another instance that I don’t have an account on?

          • Justdaveisfine@midwest.social
            7·
            3 days ago

            … Is this why I couldn’t see your posts? I noticed certain communities were very different when logged in or not on Voyager, I have been reporting it as a bug this entire time.

            • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              9·
              3 days ago

              Yup. Exactly why. I was just outright banned from the instance entirely so none of my content was federating.

              If you weren’t logged in, then the app was probably using lemmy.world as a default instance and so you were seeing all my stuff.

              Might wanna go apologize to Alex lol