The powertripping is baked into the rules, which is rather common for small niche communities, and a poor fit for general, broad categories. Like… ‘art’.

Very strange rules there.

Traditional art is allowed, and the community is called “digital art.”

This is essentially an argument over what “furry” means.

Obviously, your art means furry to the mod whether you like that or not. This you already knew though because the ban was the 7th action against you in that community.

You can’t say you thought your work was still welcome there after 6 post removals in the previous 7 months. That’s just disingenuous.

As for “I barely use Lemmy to post, and I’m not going to download external apps to open chats just for this, plus I don’t speak English”, this is just bullshit. You put the effort in to learn how to post, and did it in English. This seems a pathetic attempt to bolster how innocent you are trying to seem.

It’s their community to do with as they please. I can see why someone may consider your art furry and why you say it isn’t. Regardless of that, it has been clear to you for 7 months that it wasn’t welcome in that community and you persisted in posting against their rules.

YDI.

Even for a rule violation an immediate permaban for a regular poster is just egregious. PTB

I think Tywèle having prejudice against people she considers furries is a red flag in my book maybe she didn’t start that rule but she’s clearly enforcing it with prejudice. Something good to keep in mind, maybe she didn’t know it but anti-furry sentiment is frequently used as a smoke screen to cover up queerphobia. I can’t say that she’s using it for that, but anti-furry sentiment has a bad reputation for a reason. And she already was giving me bad vibes before.

Also I did very recently create a new Digital Art community on Pawb.social !digitalart@pawb.social despite being on pawb.social it’s not exclusively a furry art community, it is a general purpose digital art community that people like you can post your art in, without having to worry about assholes like the mod who banned you.

The rule is “furry or anthro related”. Even if your art isn’t strictly furry, from the one or two I see in your post history, it certainly has the same vibe as that genre so I’d call it “related”. Doesn’t really seem like a power trip, especially since they recommended other communities. I don’t see that they acted out of prejudice or spite from your explanation.

Tywele isn’t the mod who banned you, or removed your posts.

I’m not going to download external apps to open chats just for this

Lemmy has direct messages built in, she likely meant this.

Looking through the images themselves, I’d personally consider them furry except the last one that got you banned, so PTB I suppose.

Banned for posting furry art?? WTF?

(at least, if your stuff even is furry, which it sounds like it isn’t)

Furry is in fact broader than anthropomorphic stuff, actually. I’m a fur, I’m a full-on wolf, any art of me is also furry art. :3 Even if it looks indistinguishable from a painting of an average wolf.

That said, anyone who’d ban furry art like this (anthropomorphic or not) is just a dickhead. And probably anti-queer.

Going “but I’m not a furry!” won’t really help you against the dickheads. The good news is, they’re dickheads, and they’re not worth your time to try to appease.

– Frost

Damn, this is one of those very rare instances when the original subject does matter for PTB.

Here’s why I think that.

There is a good degree of overlap in the images that are what could be called “furry” in terms of what is usually described by that term as a thing of its own, and some yokai.

Now, kemonomimi is very often included by furries as part of, or at least loosely connected to, the “hobby” (for lack of a better word), so I could definitely see that as rule breaking and worthy of removal, though I would say a permaban based solely on that is too far. A warning and temp ban would be the appropriate step for what’s available to be seen currently.

But, you gotta admit that drawing yokai can often look just like furry drawings, no matter what the origin of the creatures are. If your specific drawings look close enough to standard furry art, then it doesn’t matter what you call it, it still isn’t going to fly.

Since I can’t see your posts, I can’t say for sure how close your art came to what is generally accepted as imagery that fits “furry” art. And it does matter when it comes to a PTB opinion because the rule is there to curate out a range of imagery, no matter what the origins. Furry stuff is not purely anthropomorphic at this point, nor has it been for a very long time. You may choose not to agree with that, but it does sway whether the mod calling your art furry art is making a reasonable interpretation.

Now, I tend to lean PTB in this case since you say you’d been posting with no issues. If your first and only mod action for a user after that long is an immediate ban, you’re kinda bring a dick.

I’m not sure why you’d try making comments in a different community to try and contact a mod though, you can do that directly in other ways without having to download anything extra.

I’m also confused how you made this post and expect to read the comments if you don’t speak English at least a little. Your writing in English is just fine as far as that goes.