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I’m not sure. Can you take a screenshot of the error?
Your post in No Stupid Questions was removed for the following reason:
It's not that you can't post because you're a local user.
You did post there, it's just that the community mod removed it because it didn't belong in that community (their call not mine). This has nothing to do with being a local user.
It's just that lemmy.world notifies their users about removals and bans. Whereas in general, you'd need to consult the modlog to know about it.
You post was removed by a moderator. There was no error, everything worked the way it's supposed to.
"Rule 1" is in reference to the rules of the community you posted in, and the rest is just telling you why you got notified of the post being removed.
The "local" is referring to the fact that your user exists on lemmy.world, and is hence local to that server.
This message is in a very confusing format, evidenced by other people in this thread misunderstanding it. It also took me a while to figure it out. I'll take a whack at rewriting it.
So everything worked as intended, the mods of that community removed your post for some reason. I can't guess without seeing the post
Some lemmy.world communities seem to be testing a moderation bot. The wording of that message is confusing, but I think they are testing the bot with their own users first.
Normally when a post is removed, users aren't notified. You were notified, and the bot is saying that you got notified because you are a local user.
I think they should change that line to something else, since it's confusing
The modlog of that community shows all the removed posts, which one is yours? https://lemmy.world/modlog/4230
Also, the Rule 1 of !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world isn't what you quoted, but
They didn't quote it. That bit was added by the lemmy.world moderators.
Indeed, I had forgotten LW has that additional messaging system
My question was: Is there a way to join another instance?
There is a way:
However, that would not solve the issue you had. You received this message because your post had been removed, not because you were on the wrong instance.
Which question did you ask?