How to Leave a Community One is Banned (or similar) from?
That's the question basically.
I cannot post or comment. The community main page has neither the "Join" nor the yellow "Leave" button. Yet it still shows up in my profile page sidebar (and possibly also in my feed).
How can I actively leave the community resp. remove it from there?
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That sounds like a bug.
I have not put much effort into optimizing the experience for banned people, sorry. Normally I want to make life hard for them, not easy. But obviously that is silly of me because mods aren't always nice people and they ban people for bad reasons quite often...
I've added this to the list.
Block it. I don't know if it's very different in Piefed, which is a fork of Lemmy, but you should be able to just block the community. That should hide it. Not sure about the sidebar though.
Power-hungry mods from Reddit are ruining Lemmy (et al) with bans when they should be using blocks. All they're accomplishing is reducing engagement — and I think that's the point. Don't get me wrong, if a person deserves a ban, they should get a ban, but I see a lot of "I just want to see Lemmy burn" rather than "I want to make my comm better" (mostly looking at YPTB).
To my knowledge, Piefed isn't a lemmy fork. Lemmy is written in Rust and Piefed in Python
I guess it's gone from my feed either way, but it does not remove it from the sidebar. Would that work on Lemmy?
It's a small nuisance, but more than just cosmetic.
I don't think powerhungry mods/admins necessarily come from reddit; the way the fediverse works, with instances etc., actually supports such NIMBY behavior.
What's YPTB?
If you go to settings you may be able to see your blocklist, and should be able to add communities by typing them in and selecting from the drop-down.
That users instance has a community to complain about moderation.
If the community is one that instance doesn't like, they'll tell you it's not your fault and mods are from reddit.
If the community is one they agree with, they throw insults and tell you that mods can run communities how they want and if you don't like it, don't go there....
I blocked it after they literally made certain instances immune from complaints.
It seems like a good idea on the surface, but it's run by very unserious people
Oh — YPTB is "Ye Power Trippin' Bastards". It's a comm where people go to bitch about being banned. They have to bring receipts and people weigh in like they do in "Am I the Asshole" comms, e.g. "YDI" (you deserved it)/"PTB" ((the admin is/was a) power-trippin' bastard) or something like "NTA" (not the asshole).
Usually the mod/admin gets called out, either by the OP or by someone else. Usually they ignore the summons and/or ban others who criticise them in the thread. It's usually a shit show. You go there and bring popcorn.
As for the differences between Lemmy and Piefed, I'm really not sure.
I'm actually finding out right now.
I.e. a screenshot (e.g. of the modlog) that is supposed to prove some other, unproven claim (the "power tripping").
No, I get it, there are cases where this makes sense, just not the one I'm dealing with atm.
Yeah, I generally don't recommend YPTB... I figure, either the person deserved it, or the mod/admin did them a favour (being the toxic one).
I've been banned from communities and I've blocked communities. Users curate their feed and mods/admins curate their users. It's not personal to me. Plus, it's not like you can't just make another account. (I don't recommend trying to dodge bans, but like if there was content you just wanted to see, as long as you don't interact, I think it's fine.)
It's getting away from your actual issue and I wasn't trying to derail. That said, maybe you can try communicating with them and asking if they'll unban you for a day so you can get it off your sidebar. Worst case scenario is they say no and you're back where you started.
This is not what this post is about, not my other either.
I'm just asking about an inconsistency in the UX/UI. It feels wrong to technically still be subscribed to such a comm, and get visual reminders of that.
And for the other, I just want accountability.