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”.
I checked the terms for lemmy.world and mastodon.world. I don’t what rule was explicitly broken. That’s why I am asking to discuss this with the mod team.
Might be a good spot for one of the instance moderators to chime in. Not sure if it’s appropriate to tag them in posts like this but it might be a nice spot to provide a clear explanation that others can point to for future examples of this type of removal.
I didn’t see anything about misinformation in the CoC but one of them might have felt the community was inflammatory. It’ll also be interesting to see if this is one of those things they just don’t want on their instance. While we would like impartial instances in general, they are running it for us and Lemmy is likely in a limbo period of trying to establish precedence for what is allowed.
One of the reasons I wanted to follow this post is to hopefully get an even clearer explanation on what is allowed and what to expect going forward from this instance.
FYI, I updated the post with a follow-up.
Yup. Totally reasonable take. I’m all for following the rules. I just didn’t see any rules being broken by creating the !prolife@lemmy.world community.
I wasn’t able to see the posts from the community as it has been removed, but the comments in that community from you point to the possibility that it was inflammatory.
A response from an instance moderator should help clarify the reasoning though.
From their desktop site:
Questions/issues can be posted [to https://lemmy.world/c/support] or emailed to info@lemmy.world.
I’d start there versus putting them on blast here.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !support@lemmy.world, !support@lemmy.world
Is this not https://lemmy.world/c/support ?
This is not a bad community to ask this question in, but the admins seem to watch !moderators@lemmy.world more closely (several admins are actually mods of that community), you might have a better chance crossposting this there… and as a mod with a policy question this seems on-topic there to me.
At-mentioning an admin is often not helpful, I’ve seen them say repeatedly that they get flooded with useless mentions and can’t keep up. There’s also an email to reach them, but I forget what it is.
Good idea. Cross-posted!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !support@lemmy.world