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?
Hrm, I see. But that block seems to just set Lemmy’s default “user-level instance blocking”, which does not block users from the instance, only communities. i.e., it’s the same as the Lemmy web UI, and in it I see that I’ve already blocked Lemmy.ml, for all the good that it does - which I mean to say is not much.
So I meant here that the app does not provide additional functionality beyond the web UI, to do something that the web UI can or will not.
And this is why I don’t want to write a post about this topic - it’s terribly confusing, with so many fine-grain details that can trip someone up. This would be better written by a team of people who each know more about the various aspects, i.e. the different apps and methods of accessing the Fediverse. But at least here I offered what little I do know personally.
ooh i didn’t even realize there was a difference. you’re right, it is terribly confusing hahaha