Its a shame because they’re prominent voice on lemmy. Good on the admins for not tolerating this. I don’t understand the point of targeting a person you don’t like on the internet just because they said something that upset you and spamming their post with downvotes. If you don’t like someone block their ass and be done with it. I agree with the perspective that its harassment (and an incredibly petty ineffective form of it at that)
It doesn’t work like that, even if the post is on another instance the media itself is hosted on the users’ instance. For example if a feddit.org user posted to a dbzer0 community I wouldn’t be able to see it, since the image itself is hosted on feddit.org.
There’s a fix for this called image proxying, which a few instances like Lemmy.zip for example enable, but Lemmy.world doesn’t do this.
Then I have no idea what’s going on, sorry.
Damn this fediverse thing is complicated.
Yeah it’s thumbnail getting cached to world instance. Silly me.
And none of this matters yet because I’m still permanently banned from multiple communities without those mods telling me which comments or posts of mine are responsible for those bans. 🤷♂️