I'm banned from a server I've never heard of because someone I've never heard of reported me to myself for posting a picture of my own grocery store to my own subreddit.

I'm so sorry that happened to me.

I assume by "subreddit" you mean Lemmy Community?

So, you created and moderate !buyselltrade@lemmy.sdf.org , you posted something there. Someone clicked "Create Report", and as a result you (the moderator of that community) received a report. Naturally, you didn't ban yourself. But, somehow you were banned from discuss.tchncs.de? Do the admins of that site receive a report if one of their users reports something? Or, was there a separate report that they acted on?

In a way though, I guess this is working as intended with distributed moderation. If someone had a Hitler fan club community on their own server nobody could make them shut it down, but the existence of that community might be enough to warrant banning them and/or defederating their instance. But, I'd assume there was a separate report requesting that you be banned from their community that went to their moderators.

What's funny about this is that the complaint was "Med spam". Lemmy is a "pull" design, you don't get community posts sent to you, you have to go out looking for them. So, this is a bit like choosing to go to a steakhouse and then leaving a bad review because they didn't have good vegan options.

Can someome who speaks internet tell me what

Med spam

means?

What the heck. Hopefully it was a bad automod behavior, and you aren't being persecuted for your granules.

EDIT: Nvm, I see it was a real boy who reported you.

Yeah, but, you got any more of them granules?

Lemmy... Free speech platform or hurtmyfeefees censorship network?

You are on the Lemmy mod watch list, good luck! Lemmy mods are blind of power.

I got one comment banned on an community (in a FOSS one) because I was asking questions of something I shouldn't...

Free speech everywhere.