Ok so this is likely one of my wierder experiences with the fediverse and is a bit of a story that ends with something wierd with https://piefed.social/topic/chilling/comics?sort=new&layout=list - So to sorta start this off I rarely post but had taken to posting a comic I like called devils panties to comicstrips@lemmy.world. One day when I clicked on replies to the comic I was getting 404 pages and I could not find the comic anymore. There was no notification or anything that it was removed but I checked the sidebar rules and it did not seem to break any. So I posted again and the same thing came back. I suspected that things can be removed without notice or such or just maybe something was breaking so posted to comics@lemmy.ml and that went fine. I changed to posting to comics@lemmy.ml but then noticed that the comic was being posted by someone else to comicstrips@lemmy.world. It did not show up greyed so it presumably was not a bot. I figured I would bow out as I was going to stop posting once I got a job as when working I tend to not be able to really get to anything even small like this (im not a good waker upper and I tend to be toast after work). The next day though no post was done by the other user so late before I went to bead I did the lemmy.ml post and one hour later it appeared in lemmy.world. Its been pretty consistantly one hour after. Anyway the whole thing made me feel pretty wierd but then today its sorta on another level. When perusing https://piefed.social/topic/chilling/comics?sort=new&layout=list I see the duplicates the user does to lemmy.world but I don’t see my original posts to lemmy.ml but I do see another comic posted to lemmy.ml and if I go directly to comics@lemmy.ml I see my post. Anyone have any idea whats going on???
there were several seperate things. I used to post to lemmy.world until presumably a mod removed a comic about the artist going to a protest. I did not really know what was going on at the time but guessed it was being removed as it happened again when I posted again. I then posted to the second largest comic community at lemmy.ml and it stayed up. So it became my main community for the stuff. The other user may have been doing the stuff before with replicating posts although I have seen plenty of posts that are on lemmy.ml that do not get replicated to lemmy.world. So no idea whats going on there and I have yet to hear back from pinging them. Lastly I would see the doubles in the topic and then after the recent change I would only see theirs which prompted this posting of mine. So regardless comcistrips@lemmy.world is verbotem to me due to presumably the actions of a mod. I do the postings for now to comics@lemmy.ml but with the change to piefed combined with that wierd notabot automated poster user I am not sure if I want to continue. I was told that blocking them would at least let me see my posts in the topic. If I don’t hear from the user I will block them so that it does not irritate me as much.
I am sorry this is happening to you! Yeah, Lemmy.World is fairly authoritian itself, and while usually it is still far less so than Lemmy.ml, this is one time where it seems that is not true.
Blocking the user seems like it will help restore your joy at having posted it, and hopefully PieFed can make some changes in the future to help make such cross-posts more visible where it came from.
Maybe all these details are interesting to know more about how federation and such work, or perhaps it’s the opposite and you don’t care, but either way the most important thing is that you now know how to move forward to achieve your aim:-).
oh im someone who always like knowing more. Im so glad I posted this as I went from having a vague feeling of what was going on to being pretty sure of it all. Its been great.