This is probably more of a Lemmy specific thing than what's normal on this community, but I posted on a community from lemmy.ml and the mods there banned me from the community.
They didn't remove my post or message me about it. I only found out because when I was going through replies, I couldn't reply and I noted that my account is banned from that community.
I wasn't saying anything untoward or encouraging anyone to do anything illegal or anything like that. It was a comment about systems of government. I don't believe I put any emphasis on whether one was better than another, but the post was in a non-political community; so it should not lean one way or the other on the matter, and the post I was replying to introduced the political discussion, so I was on-topic.
The specifics aren't super important. What I want to know is whether there's a built-in system to inquire with the mods or something to try to get an official reply as to what rules they believe I had broken to deserve a ban, and whether that ban is permanent or not. I tried simply messaging one of the mods, but it's been hours with no reply.
Is there any way to find the information? Previously on Reddit, I would almost always get a message from the subreddit about what happened, what violation caused it, and allowed me to message the mods to try to argue my case, though, me getting banned on that platform was quite rare. This is my first time knowingly being removed like this and I don't understand the process here.
Can anyone enlighten me about how these things are supposed to work on Lemmy?
Those mods are fragile and allergic to facts. They love state capitalist authoritarian countries and are emotionally unable to cope with anyone who disagrees. You very likely did nothing wrong whatsoever other than participating in objective reality instead of refusing to succumb to the delusional thinking they require.
This explanation seems the most accurate to me.
When posting I try to take a more balanced, neutral approach, mainly dealing with objective facts and trying to keep my opinions and biases to myself, unless otherwise stated.
I'll discuss most anything, and a surprising number of things have merit, if you're speaking from a very neutral/balanced/unbiased perspective. Unfortunately, people often take my statements on things as support of those things, and that's not the case at all.
Merely pointing out the benefits of say, communism, doesn't make me a communist, nor should it imply that I think communism is better than another system. This is just one example.