So I started a piefed account, mostly for my writing so that dbzer0 (and Lemmy) wouldn’t have to put up with all my weird fiction stories all the time. Plus, I wanted to check out the biggest Piefed space, piefed.social, because I'm excited about some of the new concepts they are bringing to the table.
I created a writing community, a Socialist community, and a Green Party community there today.
Nothing outrageous or controversial. I posted one news article in each of the Socialist and Green Party communities, and a couple to my writing comm.
The Socialist and Writing communities were local only, so they wouldn’t even show up in the larger Fediverse. I only posted in my own communities. No controversy intended, none created.
I just got banned, almost immediately after starting the communities. The reason in the mod log says: "Universal Monk".
The admin, @rimu@piefed.social, hasn't replied to my DM asking why (yet). I guess being me is reason enough. I feel so famous! Or maybe infamous?
I'm still a libertarian socialist tho! Piefed.social and Lemmy ain't gonna change my mind.
Oh, I already know how the votes (down) here are gonna go! But doing my part in adding content to Lemmy anyway; being the change I wanna see. No regrets! :)
EDIT: I'm posting this here, and I've repeated it in this thread. Just in case piefed.social banned me on the assumption that I’m “conservative” because I’ve posted links to conservative news articles… then, by that same logic, shouldn’t I also be considered socialist and anarchist because I post so much socialist and anarchist content? I actually post way more socialist content than anything else. And there is nothing in my fiction writing that is conservative at all. My entire post history is public, it doesn't take much effort to see that I post practically anything I find interesting.
Right?! They don't even give a real reason now. Just putting "Universal Monk" as the ban reason feels so lazy to me. And honestly, back before the election—when I was supposedly so controversial—nothing I said or posted even came close to the shit I see people saying on Lemmy now.
If anyone goes back and looks at my posts, where I supposedly caused all that "trouble," it’s laughable compared to the hardcore stuff people say today. Like people were legit pissed that I liked the Green Party and then the Socialist party. People ended up writing programs to track me, asking for investigations into me (still happens, someone just asked a guy to write a Lemmy program to investigate me a few days ago), noting times I posted, telling me that I would die on the war front in Russia, saying that I was trying trying to destroy Lemmy, etc.
And look at Lemmy now, baby! lol