Hey there! I recently got server banned b/c I was sharing a link in men’s communities and I was mistaken for a bot.
I didn’t have a way to respond to the ban. I was just logged out. I didn’t see a link or even which mod did the ban so that I could reply to them, but then I couldn’t get into my account to reply anyway.
It’d be nice to maybe get a “if you think this was in error” email or something.
Although I know that if lemmy was the size of reddit, people would hook that email up to chatgpt, so :/
Anyway, it’d be a nice feature to have. I doubt I’ll need it again, but I was quite confused as to what to do.
The closest GitHub issue I could find regarding this would be: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4572
Doesn’t seem to relate to site bans, though. Also doesn’t appear to be planned in the near future, unfortunately. I agree it would be nice if it emailed the user letting them know.
This is another issue I’ve been patiently awaiting the implementation of: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4699
It’s in the 0.19.5 milestone. It should hopefully help to undo silly mistakes like this in the future.
While there isn’t any built-in ban appeal in Lemmy, there are still a few ways to reach lemm.ee admins even after a full ban: creating a new account (as you did), contacting me on Matrix (I am @sunaurus:matrix.org), or contacting the admins on Discord (there is an invite to the lemm.ee Discord in the sidebar of this community).
super good to know, thanks! And thank you for hosting and managing our instance :)
