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OP is very aware...
This is at least the third time I'm blocking an account with that exact username from a random small instance.
It's likely a troll mad that one of the big instance banned them, they keep making new accounts.
Getting instance banned is a problem that wasn't present on Reddit.
On Reddit, sometimes the mods of a sub would be drinking stupid juice and ban people just for disagreeing with them. That wasnt a huge problem because a mod on a power trip only stopped you from posting/commenting in that sub; it wasn't a site-wide ban.
The problem on Lemmy is that instance admins are essentially filling the role of subreddit mods. Except when they go on a power trip and ban users of their instance, that whole account is suddenly banned from the entire Fediverse because the user can't even log in anymore. That's pretty shitty.
This is my second account. My first got banned from an instance because I dared question the admins opinion. And no, it wasn't racist or political shit, it was literally about the quality of a show. They graciously offered to unban me if I wrote a long ass apology saying they were right and promising to never question them again; but I felt that was childish, so I moved to another instance.
Losing my comment history isn't a big deal, but having to recreate my filters and subscriptions list is a pain in the ass. All because some power tripping admin got mad that I didn't like his favorite show.
I could see that happening. If you're arguing with the admins of the instance that hosts your account, the most charitable reaction is "Maybe this isn't the right instance for you."
And if they're willing to site-wide ban your account over stupid shit like that, I guess it really isn't an instance for you. ;)
In an ideal world, it would be super hard to get banned like that. Spam, piracy, CSAM, abuse etc.
No i have just two accounts and i have linked each other in the bio. but my new one is made today as i explained in the post unless you kniw something about me that i don't , you are wrong if i have an alt i would link them in my bio . I wish lemmy had a feature where we could transfer accounts from instances like in mastodon . Because i hate having two accs sometimes you scroll in one and have to see tge same posts when you scroll on the others .