I can post but not comment

I was able to successfully create a post to c/support. But I cannot reply to any comment.

I'm experiencing a lot of connectivity issues. I'm trying to figure out whether the site is just slow, or there's a problem with my account. My account recently gained a pretty large negative karma due to making some statements in defense of not defederating Facebook Threads, which were wildly unpopular. I received a lot of downvotes and now my account karma stands at –77.

Since then, I have not been able to reply to any comment. I was able to post successfully, but I cannot reply to any comment response to my post.

But also lemmy.world seems to be struggling with the recent uptick in traffic, so maybe it's just slow?

Is my account shadowbanned for comments, or is the site just slow for everyone?

Edit to add:

Here is what I see when I try to post a reply comment on memmy for ios, while I am definitely logged in:

And

. It says not logged in but also the profile shows logged in. Double checked by logging out and back in.

If my account is fucked and unrecoverable, I wish lemmy.world could just let me know and i will try to move on to another platform. Thanks for any advice you can give.