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Banned over fish joke (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:

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~~I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in vegan@lemmy.dbzero.com, which is a more reasonable ban~~. this ban has also been lifted now. I appreciate the cooperation from the mod over this misunderstanding.


So it seems i've gotten a month-long ban in..... over 30 communities across lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, and several others, for this comment here.

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It's directly replying to a comment saying they can't imagine why anyone thought otherwise about fish feeling pain, which is reasonable. You might notice the quotation marks, because it's satirizing people's mental gymnastics about fishes' pain perception. It was meant in jest, exclusively.

It seems likely that a single mod took this joke wrong and chose to ban me on every community they have control over.

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[-] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 4 days ago

Cope, this was a mass ban for a fairly mild joke on a entirely different space and wasnt even touching your vegan community in the slightest.

They very clearly were not on the vegan com at the time of the comment so the example given is a false equivalency.

Petty reddit powermod behaviour.

You've only walked this back as well due to the mass backlash stemming from this post.

this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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