I am experiencing a strange situation where when I try to log into piefed.social, I get a notification that says “You have been banned.”. I initially took this at face value, and assumed I had somehow broken a rule, but upon trying to see why I was banned, I could not find any evidence that I had actually been banned, besides my login credentials producing that message.
The first anomaly was the inability to find any entry in the modlogs for my username (korendian or robert.meyer86@piefed.social). So there was no record of me being banned, but perhaps it was an incomplete log, so I continued my research. I looked for an e-mail that said I was banned, and I could not find one, but I did see e-mails from just recently, after I was banned, from piefed with notifications of activity on posts/comments. I am still getting these e-mails as if my account is still active. Lastly, my profile itself is still active, and still registering upvotes on comments and posts. I can successfully send messages from other users to my previous account, and overall it seems like an active and functional profile.
So am I crazy, or is something weird going on here? Where can I learn more about my possible ban, and why are all signs pointing to it being more of a glitch than an actual thing? I was not trolling or doing anything really out of line that I could see warranting a ban, but I also don’t know if there was some rule I broke somehow with how I was posting/commenting. Any insight into this situation would be a appreciated.
Here is my old profile for reference, let me know if it looks active to you:
https://lemmy.zip/u/robert.meyer86@piefed.social
PieFed has some pretty intense ban-evasion countermeasures. I won't go into details but yeah - good luck. It's intentionally confusing because anyone trying to get around it probably deserves to have their time wasted.
Sorry if we have unintentionally caught you in this. Some false positives are likely.
Probably easier for you to just use another instance.
It seems to be a frontend issue, as I can login at p.piefed.social, but piefed.social and b.piefed.social both have issues. Good to know that this is the attitude towards user issues on piefed.
Yeah really, was looking into it, now I know to stay far away.