Gotcha. Well hope I set you on the right track at least, not sure what else I can do to troubleshoot. At least p.piefed.social works, so that’s good.

I recommend trying a smaller instance on piefed, it is better than Lemmy in a number of ways.

I don’t consciously remember making it, but I might have made it in the troubleshooting phase. In any case, still doesn’t explain why I cannot login with any credentials at piefed.social. I am able to login to p.piefed.social, but those exact saved login credentials do not work on piefed.social.

When I click that I get a blank website that says not found, so I am not sure where in the user list you saw that. Unless I just can’t see it because it’s banned. I do not recall consciously making another username after I was banned, unless I had done that to try to see if it was an IP ban.

The username is korendian, and the handle is @robert.meyer86@piefed.social. Neither of those work to login at piefed.social, nor does my email, but I can use my email and that password to login at p.piefed.social. I think it is some discrepancy in the naming system, as viewing my profile from different sites shows different username/handles. Here is a view from several different sites showing that korendian and robert.meyer86@piefed.social are the same account, but depending on where it is viewed, korendian and robert.meyer86 both show as the username or handle (I.e., piefed.social seems to have korendian@piefed.social as the handle, but Lemmy.zip shows the handle as robert.meyer86@piefed.social. I am honestly unsure which is the right one to be honest).

https://imgur.com/a/4wWVO0L

Seriously though, why we are clinging to continued federation is beyond me.

The fediverse is built on voluntary connections between communities. This post is literally a post to discuss and debate the issue. There is no active proposal or vote to defederate from lemmy.world, unless they defederate from one of the mutual anarchist instances first. It’s basically saying “if you do this, it will be bad, so don’t do it”. I.e., using solidarity between communities to force the issue one way or another. In what way is that cowering or “trending towards fascism”? Defederation is built into the fediverse, and it is not like it is being used willy nilly here to silence people. At least not by any of the instances signed on to this flotilla. This is a response to that actually, more than anything.

Really alarmed by the lack of professionalism in the leadership of some of these platforms. Rimu’s response to me being shadow banned due to a glitch in the login screen of piefed.social was “yea, that happens, you should probably find another instance.”. That’s how I ended up on anarchist.nexus. 😆

Honestly, I think this was a good thing that they had defederated. I found this instance because of how poorly and jankily run the main instances were. There are also non-stop click bait and potentially AI posted crap, so the less that is in my feed, the better. Just my two cents on it, all drama aside.

Did you also call that the water would have a grapefruit flavoring option? Lmao.

I have not used p.piefed.social prior to it being suggested here. Here are some screenshots to show the banned screen and the login screen, as well as another strange effect where I get a 404 error on using a username for login on p.piefed.social, but am able to login with e-mail address without an issue.

https://imgur.com/a/UX8pG8F

Appreciate that! Unfortunately it did not change anything, p.piefed.social works fine, but piefed.social still says banned.

I appreciate that! The feed takes a bit to load, and when it does, it just says “Nothing to see here”. The profile, avatar and any other info related to the profile does not load, but it also does not let me attempt to login again and acts like it is logged in, even though it seems as if it is not.

It seems to be a frontend issue, as I can login at p.piefed.social, but piefed.social and b.piefed.social both have issues. Good to know that this is the attitude towards user issues on piefed.

It appears to indeed. A frontend bug with piefed.social. I was able to login without issue on p.piefed.social, but blorp seemed to also have issues, not saying I was banned, just never loading once I logged in.

I have tried on multiple devices and browsers. So it’s not an IP ban, since I cannot access it no matter what IP I am connecting from. I haven’t tried a different front end, but I will give it a go.