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.blahaj admins/mods will ban you from every space they control

I don’t moderate any communities outside of blahaj.

It’s not a “common practice on blahaj”. It’s just how lemmy does instance bans.

I generally don’t community ban people, I tend to instance ban them, because if they’re breaking community rules, but not instance rules, it’s up the community mods to deal with, and if they’re breaking instance rules, they get an instance ban.

And when you instance ban someone, and choose to remove their content, that’s what it looks like in a modlog. It’s not because I’ve gone and selected a whole bunch of community bans. It’s just how lemmy works

It changed. Back when this all went down, instance bans did not automatically issue community bans. This was a problem in the case of spammers, because it would mean that if an admin banned a user with post removal turned on, their posts would only be removed locally, and the removals wouldn’t federate to other instances.

Around a year or so ago (maybe a bit earlier?) lemmy instance bans were changed to also issue community bans for any local community the account had interacted with. This meant that when an account was banned with content removal, those removals would federate to other instances for communities that were hosted on that instance.

There is a manual way to import posts one at a time, so that’s a option.

That’s exactly how I did it when we spun up the new instance.

And once all the of the content was here, we transferred kicked off the transfer process.

It’s not feature complete, as you said. In our case, it broke, because of a bug around the way it handled community names that use upper case letters, which required editing the database to fix

But despite that, at the end of it, we have the old content on the new community. Even if it doesn’t federate, it’s not lost

The piefed community migration feature does import old posts, but it doesn’t refederate them, so they’ll only be visible to local users