I need support in understanding if I’m a spammer or not. First I thought to put it into [email protected] but now I’m really afraid to post into the wrong community and get banned from it too, so I decided to go to this support community, I hope I won’t get banned here for that.

Yesterday I saw this article online: https://www.wired.com/story/red-note-tiktok-xiaohongshu/ which has the title “With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’” and thought to myself: “Haha, that sounds like an article the Onion would write! The government trying to protect the people from the Chinese by banning TikTok and the people run to the next Chinese app, it really sounds like satire.” and then I remembered that we have a community on Lemmy called “Not the Onion” [email protected] and thought to myself “The people in this community will probably enjoy this irony that it sounds like a The Onion article but it’s real life and not satire.”. That’s when I decided to post it there, here is the original post: https://piefed.jeena.net/post/97462 (I’m not sure if other Admins can see it).

I’m copying the rules to post there from that community for your convenience:

The Rules Posts must be: Links to news stories from… …credible sources, with… …their original headlines, that… …would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

1. Wired is a credible source
2. the headline is the original headline
3. It made at least me think “That has got to be a story from The Onion”

Anyway, I went to sleep and when I woke up I had a notification saying: " You have been banned from Not The Onion" I went to the post and saw that it’s deleted too and that it has -22 in votes. Ok, clearly people didn’t like it for some reason which is not very clear to me. The comments there did not indicate any reasons, they just made fun of the same thing I thought was funny.

I looked into the modlog and can see there:

[email protected] Banned account Jeena in Not The [email protected] Reason: Spammer

Now the thing which stuns me, am I really a spammer? I’m following the rules and I’m posting something which in my mind really fits into the community but I am now banned and can’t even read posts in that community in my feed flow.

Full disclosure, I have been banned from a different community on a different server before, it was on [email protected] and I commented as an answer to someone saying “The tankies did good things, the fought the nazis.” I wrote “Just to turn around and do the same to their own people.” which then has been deemed that I’m antisemitic and should be banned from that community forever. Their reasoning was that with this sentence I express that Jews were not Germans, which I was not, I didn’t even mention what the nazis did.