Edit: @[email protected] Contacted the moderator who did it on my behalf who admitted that this was a mistake, he sends his apologies. This incident though does highlight though the need for ban notifications as well as the need for a modmail system to contact community and site moderators.
I have left the post up with the original contents bellow as I feel it would be wrong to delete the post and rob people of the valuable information it contains, both in the post itself and in the comment section.
I messaged a mod from the community, not sure if that was the one who did it but this was weird. Not sure if it's power-tripping probably a mistake but it's certainly weird and seems like a knee jerk reaction since I didn't have activity in those last 10 days (I checked for votes too). Also no other bans in the modlog for "sock puppet account" so I don't even know why I would be singled out.
Why would someone think I was a sock puppet account? Because I have multiple accounts on different instances? Really weird...
Account is @[email protected], I didn't post from that account since I try to keep each account on each separate instance (helps prevent accidental vote manipulation).
I'm wondering if it was just because you have alts? But it's not against any rules to have alts afaik so long as you're not doing vote manipulation etc. And yours are clearly identifiable which is another point in your favour here. If you want me to reach out to the mod who banned you on your behalf, just let me know. They might not answer me, but it's maybe worth a shot.
How can you tell that they have alts?
Just search by user for "Draconic" and they are all clearly labelled. Personally I don't really see the point of it, but I don't really see a problem with it either.
Well the main reason was in the beginning I knew that servers might not last forever and I wanted to make sure I had backup accounts just in case, as well as for the purposes of negating possible federation issues (which I faced the moment I joined Lemmy.world). The more long term reason was that I thought in the future there might be a multi-account feature in Lemmy, so I wanted to have many accounts on Many different servers so I could so link them if and when that feature came into play. Looking back I'm not sure how likely it'll be to ever come, hopefully maybe, at the very least someone could develop a client which supports it.
On the Mastodon side it's simpler, I started on Mastodon.social, over time I grew to hate it because it was filled with spam, trolls, and very much limited by other servers, and I left and joined pawb.fun where a lot of the people I follow and want to follow are on. I joined dragonchat.org because pawb.fun was having outages and I still wanted to stay connected with some of my friends who were there. I joined chaos.social because I wanted a more general purpose non-furry instance to follow non-furry topics on, but still will not go back to mastodon.social. I believe I did make one on utter.online but I don't really know why.
I'm in social.sdf.org (Mastodon) and lemmy.sdf.org mainly because I'm an SDF member, though I've been a bit inactive lately. Haven't even really played on their Minecraft server. I should get back to doing that soon, I'm sure those guys miss me, and I left a lot unfinished there.
Catboy.agency lol
It's a server run by a friend I met on Mastodon. I don't use it very much though because the Misskey forks (Sharkey included) tend to be quite resource heavy. Though I still do check up on it from time to time.
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I refuse to believe it’s anything but a spy agency run by mutant cat boys
We might be, but we're also just a bunch of silly catboys UwU
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That’s how all the spy agencies start then shit gets real
That's true, I hope it doesn't come to that though. If we do though we'll at least be fighting for a good cause, the war against bigots and bigotry.
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I think that could be helpful, I did also send a message to @[email protected] to hopefully get a lemmy.world admin response but I suppose you messaging the mod couldn't hurt. Maybe he might answer and clear things up quicker that way.
Ok np, I have messaged the mod who took the action.
Seems it was just an accident - mod sends his apologies.
That's a relief. Glad it was an accident and not something I did.
Can you maybe edit the title with "Resolved" or something similar? It's nice to see good outcomes once in a while
Sure thing, just edited it now. Also added some alt-text, I forgot to do that before.
Thanks!