Mods please tell me if I should post this somewhere else.

This dude is a mod at !globalnews@lemmy.zip (even though they are not listed there as mod) and !apple@lemmy.zip (same thing, they aren’t a mod there either)

My modlog does say I was banned by this person, and no reason is stated. This person is ignoring my DM / has blocked me? I genuinely don’t remember even posting there as they are relatively small communities, and I’m not subscribed to them. I saw one post on global news today in my All feed and tried to upvote it, and that’s how I discovered.

Now I’m seeing in this persons post history that they are some kind of lemmy.zip admin of some instance possibly.

So I’m seeing to know if this person is almighty as an instance admin, and can just ban people in any community on that instance or if this could be some kind of automod mistake.

Thanks

E: @mods, I’ve got all the info I needed, feel free to lock/remove

  • garth@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    5 days ago

    I was referring to the fact that hypothetically one lemmy.world admin could essentially make people disappear.

    Which is what ICE is for.

    Are you seriously comparing being banned from a small social media site, where you could simply create another account in 5 minutes, to being arrested and imprisoned by a government agency?

    • kingofras@lemmy.worldOP
      16·
      4 days ago

      I’m not, I don’t care about that. I am literally talking about a hypothetical scenario. Using the word hypothetical was a clue missed.

      I’m saying we are trying to be one of the last bastions of free decentralised speech, and it turns out we’re not really protected from Mini-Spezzes going full authoritarian. Not just on lemmy.zip, but anywhere. The software (made by already questionable devs I hear) has authoritarianism built in.

      Go ahead downvote again, I was under the impression this decentralised model ment more accountability for the ones with red button access too. I was wrong.

      And of course I know you can have multiple accounts, but that’s not a solution. Not if you have an account that has some standing of sort.