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The amount of people in these comments asking the mods not to cave is bonkers.
This isnβt Reddit. These are hobbyists without legal teams to a) fend off false allegations or b) comply with laws that they donβt have any deep understanding of.
Yeah, you've got to think of this place like the big forums of 20 years ago, they're just run by a tiny handful of regular people, and having to deal with solicitors and other such stuff is entirely out of the question.
If something's bad, you lock it down and purge it until it's not bad any more. Unfortunately that's the best you can do with such minimal resources as a regular member of the public, and for those that don't like it, there's other forums out there.
This isn't one single huge monopoly thing like Reddit, you either stay or leave forever, if you don't like how one is being run, just sign up on a different one. Takes the stress out of it :-)
Lemmy instances are also international, which would cause more problems.
This instance is Finnish, and lemmy.ml is Malaysian(?), each with their own separate administration teams. Whereas Reddit knows that all of the Reddit servers are in a few known countries, and they have the capacity to make big changes across all of them as needed.
Server and url are not necessarily in the same location. Url is just a human friendly alias for the ip of a server that can be located anywhere
ml is Mali's TLD. They reclaimed it recently, but the instance itself is hosted in Malaysia, if memory serves.