As is stated in the title, I created and moderated [email protected]. 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.

  • Synthead@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Well, here’s the thing. lemmy.world is hosted by someone that wants to host Lemmy on their own infra. Someone is choosing to serve it out of their own good will. You created a very controversial community, and the person hosting the instance didn’t want it to be on the server. That’s all there is to it.

    This is the same thing as being racist at someone’s dinner party and getting kicked out for it. You’re not entitled to run a community at a place that isn’t yours. But that’s the neat part: Lemmy is open source and federated. You can create your own Lemmy instance that is your own and be as anti-women on there as you want. Maybe some other like-minded servers will even want to federate with you.

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      2 years ago

      It is of course the right of the lemmy.world to run their instance any way they want.

      But they owe it to the community to communicate clearly who is welcome on their server. The sidebar reads:

      The World’s Internet Frontpage

      Lemmy.world is a general-purpose Lemmy instance of various topics, for the entire world to use.

      That certainly makes it sound like they’re trying to be a default neutral lemmy instance welcoming of every valid discussion topic from every end of the political spectrum. A Reddit replacement. Reddit allows right wing discussion.

      Whatever their intent, they could at least respond to this discussion.

      I don’t agree with your pithy “that’s all there is to it”