Censorship is absolutely rampant on Lemmy. I don’t post particularly controversial stuff, but I am an active commenter and I’ve noticed that mods will just wipe my comments or those of others on a whim. I think this is a huge issue and one of the biggest downsides about switching from reddit. I very rarely had comments removed on reddit and when I did I received a notice at least. This seemingly secretive wipe of comments sometimes a full day later feels very oppressive. Anyway, I know they show up in the mod log, but that’s certainly not a place I want to scour on a regular basis. Is there any easy way to setup a monitor to at least alert me if one of my posts or comments are removed? I think mods should be required to contact users and provide an explanation - right now its way too much power for mods to be curating content so heavily.
This can also happen if whoever you’re replying to deletes their post or comment. It gets rid of the whole tree. People do this when getting trampled with comments or replies. Especially if they’re negative.
Yeah, that shouldnt be a thing.
Why do you need your comment to stay up replying to something that doesn’t exist anymore?
Who knows. Maybe I put something really insightful there that stands alone. Fuck Lemmy for deleting comments without my consent.
They’re still there for us admins/mods to see.
Well super.
You got notice when your comments were deleted on Reddit?
Were we on the same Reddit?
On Reddit, they would get deleted but still show up for you, so you wouldn’t even know they got deleted, even if you went back to look for it.
I believe some subreddits had auto-mod set to notify you about issues with your posts or comments including deletion / ban.
Always. I would get emails explaining which rule was violated and why moderation was performed.
I don’t think there’s any such feature.
If you don’t agree with the actions of a mod or admin, choose a different community or instance.
It’s systemic though. If this can be abused it will. I think it’s one of the biggest let downs of how Lemmy is structured frankly.
The only thing I can think of is to somehow subscribe to the modlog. That will have the entire thing.
As for moderation, you aren’t dealing with a huge corporation, you’re dealing with individuals who choose to host their own server and have their own ideas for how it should run. If you don’t like it, the true freedom is that you can start your own instance and communities. But you need to put in the work to convince people to switch.
There is a modlog that contains all this information, but I don’t know of a way to parse that or automate it into notifications.
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