I’m glad they are at least reachable again. I hope they can at least find a handful of admin volunteers to cover user safety concerns across time zones. That should absolutely be possible out of 4,000 users but definitely needs to be done.

Honestly makes me proud of my instance which has 500 users but 4 admins, all of whom respond often within the hour!

I edited the wording to be clearer for those who haven’t been keeping up with recent PTB posts. To clarify, it was over a day.

With that in mind, a day is absolutely a reasonable timeframe for an instance with 4,000 users to expect action—though calling it “entitlement” is a rather skewed perspective. This concerns the safety of a lot of users, who were essentially left unprotected.

If SDF lacks the resources to maintain safety, they should at the very least disable automatic approvals for new users and communities, which, as I understand, had not been done at the time of writing this post. They should consider recruiting volunteer admins and adding Matrix contacts to the instance sidebar for urgent abuse cases like CSAM.

Again, I have no ill will toward the team—I’m simply reporting what happened and what we should hope to see addressed moving forward.

not here for pitchforks, just want what’s best for all their users :)

this but unironically. send them resources on how to transition smoothly to the fediverse.

Lemmy devs NEED to take action on this and implement report differentiation. I was banned from some midwest.social communities for similar. Lowly community mods should NOT be able to ban users for reporting instance/TOS offenses.

Or at least a community ban should not prevent you from making reports to admins.

Your instance may have taken action on the community.

ooh you’re the one they called a slur in the modlog im so sorry :(

edited post body to explain sorry for the confusion

it’s worse than just that. SDF apparently had zero review process for creating subs and this user is abusing it to spam transphobia and violence. got about 30 reports in before they banned me tho ;3

to me this looks more like an automod error or human mistake than actual power tripping. keep us updated on how the appeal goes.

ye im a bit sick and too feverish to think it all thru but basically just hone in the already existing rules in the sidebar to ensure post quality, also would help weed out low effort angry people

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u better be joking lol the mods account was created over a month before this community was even created XD

Your own (accurate) words:

“Thanks, you make some good points. There’s certainly room for improvement. In this case, I wasn’t making fun of anybody, but I agree I could have sugar-coated it a bit more.”

This is exactly what I mean—if you recognize room for improvement, acting on that is key.

As for your hypotheticals, yes, I understand they’re just ideas. The issue is when those hypotheticals lead to behaviors that derail conversations or disrupt the community. That’s where the problem arises—it’s not about whether bad actors might exist, but about avoiding actions that create unnecessary friction or suspicion in the absence of evidence.

If you’re mindful of this going forward, I think you’ll have a much better chance of staying unbanned and contributing constructively.

db0, what do you think about a “standard format” for this community? e.g. including the modlog with reasoning as the main thumbnail, and then including the banned content in the post body before any explanation.

sort of spitballing but some of these text posts get so impossible to read haha.

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well no matter how divisive this comment section may get we can all at least agree you made the least correct one so good job XD

so you see how you are advocating for your own obviously disruptive behavior based on the unproven possibility of bad actors being afoot, right?

they should def keep you banned, sorry man. what you are doing is called shadow boxing; there isn’t any evidence that the “problem” you are fighting even exists in this case, meanwhile you claim the right to derail conversations over it. i wouldn’t want you in my community either.

yeah thanks for your thoughts i just haven’t seen any evidence of bad actorship. as soon as i see any legitimate harm come about in this community, whether from the mod or otherwise, i will change my tune though promise.

+1 to the “bringing it to their backyard” analogy

i went to look at the original post (that comm doesn’t federate to my instance for some reason) and WOW is it bad. comments saying “i guess ur heil maga” and shit under a post rightfully criticizing the racist former president. and there’s so many! it’s more than half! i also would initiate a crackdown and i wouldn’t feel bad at all if i also got a few well intentioned folk like OP.

people need to understand that people died and are dying. c/palestine is not the space for team sports. there’s a place for that and it’s definitely not this one.