Midwest.social banned me a year ago for "Racism" and I only just found out

Instance is midwest.social. Not a solitary clue who the admin was who did it.

A friend was wondering why they hadn't seen my posts and figured I'd been banned from lemmy.world or just left in general. I went to his instance and saw that in the modlog.

Not a damn clue as to why. There are no post removals, no comment removals, no temp bans and I never got any messages from any of the admins about anything that I did. Just one day, they randomly banned me for racism without rhyme nor reason. I have literally nothing that I can point towards and say "This is the reason why" because they never bothered to do anything other than ban me.

I am many things. I am an asshole, I'm a vindictive removed, I'm a petty prick, I'm often antagonistic, I'm also a whiny removed. But racist?

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I bet one of the admins just had it out for you and came up with a bullshit excuse. Midwest reminds me of the Tankie Triad sometimes, quite a few of their users are .ml and Hexbear alts and the nonsensical banning is perfectly on brand. Nowhere near on the same level, of course, but still clearly a problem.
Side note, I hardly ever see anyone posting from that instance anymore. Used to see their users all the time. I wonder why?
- Midwest is still federated with Hexbear as well.
  What I find bizarre is that I only found out by complete accident.
  Someone else made a post and @'d me. I looked at it and it had a response with someone saying "That account has been banned" and he was from the midwest.social instance. This dude happens to be a buddy of mine and I chat with him on Steam and Bsky so I reached out and asked what he meant while I looked at midwest.social and saw the banning.
  He thought that lemmy.world had banned me for whatever reason (Spam. Spam would be the reason) and that's why he wasn't seeing my posts or anything on Lemmy anymore. That I either got banned or left lemmy on my own (which I did do for a hot second). I responded to him and asked if he could see the response. He couldn't. He then looked at my account and saw all the posts outside of midwest.social and saw all the posts I've been making and that's when I made this post.
  Whole situation is just so weird.
  Thanks again @End0fLine@midwest.social
  
  Well, that definitely explains the number of tankies from that instance. On a side note, I'm really glad you're back on Lemmy, the place felt empty without your posts.
  
  Thank you <3
  Life has just been a lot lately. Hard to get the energy to to go sorting through memes for 20 minutes, post them all and then go digging through the trash to find something to eat. The depression just does a lot of "What's the point" and the not eating for days doesn't give me enough energy to think up a point.
  
  Midwest is still federated with Hexbear as well.
  Any idea when Midwest was setup? I feel like I only saw Hexbear for a short bit before the blocking function became available. Then I immediately would have blocked Hexbear.
  It just seems very midwestern to take the "just ignore them" approach.
- I like it because I prefer to have the blocking of instances be my choice.
- ooo has the redbaiting found a new target?

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