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.
EDIT
After making my case via email to [email protected], 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”.
Server owners have discretion over community creation and federation. If you create your own instance, you’re totally free to have whatever communities you like.
Looks like you created your own instance, do you know of a guide for what that entails and the requirements for doing so? I doubt I do it but would be interesting to look into.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible
I’m unaware of hardware requirements, but specs will entirely depend on how many users and communities (local and federated) an instance has. I’m running on a very small VPS with no current desire to add users.
Thanks!