1y ago

I'd like to talk to the instance moderator who removed my community without talking to me first.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1147109

As is stated in the title, I created and moderated !prolife@lemmy.world. According to the modlog, this community was removed 10 days ago. The modlog doesn't show me who removed the community. I understand the community wouldn't necessarily be everyone's cup of tea, but the actions taken seem improper.

EDIT

After making my case via email to info@lemmy.world, I received the following response:

"We would rather not have a prolife community on our instance. We were getting a lot of reports about it and we have enough on our plate. I'm sure you can find an instance that better suits your needs."

This community was incredibly small (19 subscribers), had less than 10 postings, and had several waves of trollings. Yet, the admins of lemmy.world would rather do away with this community than bother to review if it has broken any rules or is the target of trolling/bullying. I take nothing away from the right to run their instance as they see fit. Perhaps the Code of Conduct should also explicitly state "we reserve the right to do anything we want, regardless of any published rules".

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I don't blame the lemmy.world admins for not wanting to pay to host that kind of hurtful community.
Anyone can create their own instance where they're free to talk about restricting reproductive healthcare from women all they want.

Guess being anti-basic human rights for women isn't allowed shrug
I don't see a problem

Good.
"Why aren't we allowed to gather and advocate the destruction of women's rights and autonomy?!"
Fuck off Fascist, go cry about being oppressed while you support gay and trans lawmakers being silenced across the country
- You know what? Fuck you and your ‘fascist’ label. Fascists are those that wholesale commit genocide, which is what abortion is. Fuck you for butting in where your response added no value and only showed your ass.
  
  "The only real fascist is the fascists who won't let me fascist, oh also I don't know what words mean"
  You're an ignorant fascist too, shocker. Continue on arguing against rights for women because nobody ever loved you willingly.

Misinformation/propaganda is against the rules of the instance and generally bad for society.

Hmm… didn't have anything to do with this, and (as OP says), not my cup of tea. However, I would be interested in seeing respectful discussion. It would seem that a blanket statement that the community has "misinformation" is an inadequate reason. I would be curious about exactly what the alleged misinformation is.
- This topic has been pretty disappointing for me so far. Most of the comments are the exact inflammatory comments you'd see on Reddit. I was hoping Lemmy would be a bit better but maybe not.
  You can disagree with a community existing without needing to attack the person asking for a reason why it was removed.
- FYI, I edited this cross-post with an update.

I would be curious too. As far as I can tell it doesn't break any of the https://mastodon.world/about rules.
- Why would that Mastodon instance's rules matter on a totally different Lemmy instance?
  
  Because the main page’s sidebar says that lemmy.world’s rules are same as mastodon.world’s, with a link to Code of Conduct.
  
  It's run by the same admin team and uses the same instance rules.
  For whatever reason they haven't duplicated their rules in both places. They've pointed to those rules in verified posts from admins here though, I don't have a link to an example post handy though.

While it's not my cup of tea as you've said, I think removing communities, particularly in this manner is harmful to mature debate. I know communities can become echo chambers, but removing it altogether will push people further apart. Pro life is something I personally disagree with, but it's not a particularly uncommon idea - if you oppose it, you can't just dismiss it, you need to address it properly - don't just shout at them, that won't achieve anything, you need to understand what lead them to think the way they do and persuade them to think like you do

Are instance mods the new reddit mods that everyone loved so much?
- Mods are mods. Some are good, some are bad. The platform doesn't make a difference.

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