Checked my notifications to see this, I’m not even active in those communities.
The reason says ’ Piefed Troll ’ I’m not sure what that could be?
Can someone help me figure out why I was banned? I wasn’t very active in the last week I can’t imagine why I’d be banned, especially from these communities.
Welcome to the fediverse
Instead of one u/spez, we have several dozen mini spez here. Many instance owners will instance ban users just for one comment where you forget or don’t want to place an /s after your comment.
Many of these people are young, inexperienced and have therefore no true insight in the power they wield, not of the consequences this type of behaviour has on the overall success chances of a platform that struggles to get 6 digit monthly active users.
But the most interesting part of this is that these type of comments/ criticisms are downvoted by an army of users who apparently don’t mind totalitarianism in a digital space.
I feel that’s a bit much. If you feel like you got banned and silenced, nothing stops you from:
Mods can be weird, but it’s not totalitarianism. The term uses to describe Hitler and Stalin isn’t when you get a comment removed on the internet. Unless you’re terminally online and think your comment removed on a niche internet forum is on par with the SS bursting into your home on suspicion that you’re Jewish.