UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:

unban log screenshot

I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in vegan@lemmy.dbzero.com, which is a more reasonable ban. this ban has also been lifted now. I appreciate the cooperation from the mod over this misunderstanding.

So it seems i’ve gotten a month-long ban in… over 30 communities across lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, and several others, for this comment here.

Screen cap of comment for posterity:

It’s directly replying to a comment saying they can’t imagine why anyone thought otherwise about fish feeling pain, which is reasonable. You might notice the quotation marks, because it’s satirizing people’s mental gymnastics about fishes’ pain perception. It was meant in jest, exclusively.

It seems likely that a single mod took this joke wrong and chose to ban me on every community they have control over.

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I think it’s as much of a fix as is possible. If your problem is the owner or admin of the server your best solution is to leave. On reddit that meant leaving reddit. On lemmy it means you have to find another instance

      • FelixCress@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        On lemmy it means you have to find another instance

        My understanding is it works slightly differently.

        It means that all users of an instance which banned you won’t be able to see your comments even if these are made on another instance. It therefore stops you from participating with all the users of the instance which banned you, even on other instances.

        Thus my comment about the limited remedy.

      • FelixCress@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        Because you still can be banned across individual servers so multiple communities, sometimes very large - and there isn’t anyone who can unban you when it happens.

          • FelixCress@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 days ago

            I do.

            Admins should have an ability to unban but not to ban people so essentially to control moderators but not to be moderators themselves. Moderators shouldn’t be allowed to moderate more than a couple of communities.

            Alternatively “membership” of Lemmy would be conditional upon acceptance of appeal process where admins of different instance(s) would decide if someone should be unbanned.