Something similar happened to me with a community on hexbear. Never posted but I already had a ban. The mods must have seen a comment or something on a different community on the instance. Some of the mods there are just as think skinned as on ml.
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menixator@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I was banned for “Rule 4” which, by digging through their rules (which weren’t as easy to find as I expected it to be) was “Illegal content”. I literally never posted a comment on lemmy before. THIS would be my first comment.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Faresh@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
The rules are generally on the sidebar of the community or instance (depending on if you want to know the rules of the community or instance).
Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I had a post made up of almost exclusive links to news sources (to back up a previous claim) removed due to being “uncivil”