this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


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As the title says, i recently got banned from lemmy.world because they use regex (or a similiar mechanism) to ban someone instance-wide even if you write that thing on another instance
The mod log for whoever is interessed: https://feddit.it/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=20251941

Anyway, the culprit comment was this: https://feddit.it/comment/20981739

Apparently it banned me because i cited the blacklist that contained some URL or word that .world doesn't like
Also, i had to use this 2nd account to write this post because i couldn't access this community in my main one (it's not an instance problem because when logged out i can find the community on feddit.it)

Honestly, i hope that .world admins wake up and understand that automated bans with regex are not the way and doing that on other instances is even worse!

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Sadly that's the issue with automoderators. Our own threadivore has built-in functionality where you can PM it directly with the moderation-action code and the admins get a notification to reverse easily.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I know they have unbanned you by now, but hopefully the experience has made you realize that you would be happier on a different instance. Join us! :)

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I never used .world to begin with :P
The ban was made even though my main account is on feddit.it and the post was on the Lemmy community in the lemmy.ml instance, crazy thing .-.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago

Oh! You explained that I overlooked. Totally on me! lol

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I went to take a look at the modlog you linked and they unbanned you twenty minutes ago, so apparently someone did "wake up."

Agreed that regex isn't the way to go, though.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, i sent them an email this morning, luckly they answered me quickly and unbanned me

[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 18 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

lol just stay away from world, its a shitshow over there.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Well shit, we already started a micromobility community over there. What's the deal with .world exactly?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Today?

Zionists turbolibs decided to patch a stealth update into a lemmy front end that one of them makes, that bans a whole bunch of leftist instances and users... along with a bunch of blahaj, because fuck them queers too, I guess?

db0 essentially discovered it during updating to a new lemmy version, this has led to much popcorn, very alot of salt.

[–] TRAHR@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

It’s the “Reddit” of Lemmy.