So I try to make heads or tails of this situation. I got randomly banned from a community where I posted a youtube video showing something from a Convention. Then I wanted to post a question today but realised that I couldn’t since I was banned. That community is sadly the biggest of all Star Citizen communities (the next one would be from lemmy.world)

I took a look at the Mod log and see the following line in it:

So no clean up of violating comments or posts, just a strict out ban.

The community has a pretty standard ruleset:

further, the moderator @Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml hasn’t posted anything since a year, so what gives here, or was it some other mod that was able to declare the ban?

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    When instances are defederated the connection between them is severed and data stops being exchanged. However communties, posts, and comments still remain on your instance from before. There just won’t be any new ones added. In order to remove the old ones they need to be purged but that’s not usually done since it takes effort and it’s not usually worth it unless the communities themselves contain objectionable/illegal content.