First, I was never notified, and it was a week ago that I saw the deleted posts. Although I don't have a screenshot of how much time passed, I don't need to make a big deal out of something that "was fair," and in this case, it wasn't. That tactic of taking screenshots of deleted posts to say "we warned you for months" when the ban was only a week ago is cheap manipulation. By deleting the posts recently due to the ban, they create false "evidence" that they try to pass off as a long history of "disobedience." It's a way to justify their own incompetence and lack of artistic judgment. If the ban was a week ago, there are no "months" of warnings. They're trying to rewrite the timeline to make it seem like I'm the "rebel" and you're the "patient" ones, when in reality, you're the ones who can't distinguish a human figure from a furry. Furthermore, I realized something while being "new to Lemmy" that you either don't or conveniently choose not to mention. The dates you show in your screenshot aren't from the exact moment the post was deleted; they're from the moment the post was made. Therefore, your "argument" that "they've been deleting them for months" is even more invalid. And I literally realized this by looking at your own deleted comments and posts. How ironic that a newbie foreigner would notice something so convenient, right? So yes, I'm still right that I was banned a week ago without any prior warning.

Second, is this the same old issue of whether I post in English again? Seriously? Some of you seem to think only Americans post here. These sites are universal, and English is used for that purpose, whether you like it or not. I'm noticing a certain condescension regarding this issue, which isn't even relevant to the case itself. Do you expect me to post in my language when many probably won't translate it? What a ridiculous argument. The "you don't know English and you still post" attack is pure xenophobia. On a global platform like Lemmy, using a translator to participate is perfectly valid. Using it as a weapon to invalidate your technical opinion about art is pathetic. Basically, they're telling you: "You don't have the right to defend your art if you don't speak our language perfectly."

Third, believe me, I did want to contact the moderators, but as I said, messaging on this site doesn't guarantee that my messages will reach them, and there isn't even a chat section outside of other apps the site recommends, and I'm not going to register there. Or maybe it's just my own inability to know where it is or how to use it. I'm not going to mess with something I don't know.

Fourth, I never said "I don't know how to post," read carefully, I wrote "I post on Lemmy and I'm leaving." You can accuse me of whatever you want, but I didn't break any rules. They never warned me because I never received any notifications, and that "they deleted it months ago" thing—so why did the posts disappear a week ago? Your accusation doesn't make sense. I've literally been posting since October, and the few posts I published—I never received a single warning, nor did anyone even tell me, "We consider this furry" (even though it isn't, under any circumstances). If I hadn't posted my characters, I would have stopped posting, period. I would have posted something else or just left on my own. But if you think I'm such a bad user for defending my art against injustice, that's your problem. I know what I did and what I didn't do.

Literally, the only furry thing is the TMNT fanart; the rest aren't furries. But you guys don't seem to get that. I've been polite, I've been patient, but calling me a liar is a whole other level for you. And on top of that, you're being condescending about the language, as if posting in English, Spanish, Italian, French, or whatever is important. What a way to deflect the issue and make me look like a problem for something you did without even telling me.

Having said all that, because I don't plan to continue a fight I didn't start, but rather wanted to end before it became a public circus due to your incompetence. If I'm the villain in your story, fine, I'm not going to keep justifying the obvious; I've already made everything crystal clear.

Hats the thing about attempting to do the same thing over and over expecting different results?

Just open a new community OP. Calm it furry art and do your own thing. You can't force other people to accept your own thing

100% agree. First offense permaban is for things like spam bots or egregious rule breaking.

People who otherwise participate in the community should be treated with moderation.

I'm not getting into the furry vs anthropomorphic animal debate, that's not my field.

Technically and literally I didn't infringe on anything because it's not furry-related. What she creates without knowing what she's banning is another matter entirely.

i think its just that once you let furry artists start posting in an art community, it tends to get flooded with mostly furry art.

an exclusion doesn't necessarily mean prejudice. in this case it might just be to prevent it becoming only furry art.

good reminder that anti-furry is almost exclusively used to sneak in homophobia

I'd been posting stuff about a demon and a woman with wolf ears and a tail for months, not furries. There was never a single comment from the moderators about it, and like I said, it's not furry.

Apparently there were seven posts removed previously, this wasn't want a ban for a first action https://lemmy.zip/comment/25327559

Two points: 1- I already explained what furry is and what it isn't.

2- I use a translator and translate the page.

3- An extra point, haha. Here's an example of a yokai demon with a kemonomimi. Art I uploaded there.

4- Another extra example, normal/mythical animal art, without a antro.

That said, anyone who’d ban furry art like this (anthropomorphic or not) is just a dickhead. And probably anti-queer.

It's very often used as a smokescreen to mask queerphobia. I've always gotten bad vibes from Tywèle so would probably be best to steer clear of her and any communities she might moderate.

And yeah I agree that there's no point in trying to appeal to assholes like this, because once they decide something about you they're not going to change their mind.

CC: @UserChan__@lemmy.ml

Edit: I don't want to hear any bullshit arguments about how she's trans and can't be queerphobic. Trans people absolutely can be queerphobic. I also didn't specifically say that Tywèle is queerphobic. I said she gives me bad vibes, and that anti-furry sentiment is often used as a smoke screen for queerphobia, which is true. I cannot say with any certainty that Tywèle is or isn't queerphobic.

They're confused because they lump everything related to animals into the category of furry, and it isn't. I assume that since you're a furry, you wouldn't compare a human or demon with animal features to a furry (or even a therian), much less a normal or mythical animal. Furthermore, according to that moderator's "logic," a fairy and a mermaid (things she posts in her communities) are furries—that's how ridiculous this is.