So I look in the modlog from time to time. There's been some actions I've seen that I don't agree with, but there is no way to see the context, so I've never spoke up. But today I saw something that concerned me. I'm just going to copy/paste the modlog so you see what I see.
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Technology@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Indiana@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod Banned
AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Chat@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Socialist Rifle >Association@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Antifascism@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Michigan@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Lord of the >memes@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Ohio@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community United States | >News & Politics@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community The >Onion@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Religious >Cringe@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Iowa@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Memes@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Minnesota@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned >AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Food Crimes - >Offenses against >nutrition@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year
I don't know who this guy is, or who the mod is, but essentially this guy is getting banned for being liberal.
Or am I misreading the situation???
Just leave the instance, not the fed. It can be seen to help grow it. You're free to start your own instance and allow/disallow anyone for any reason. Remember that there isn't 1 Lemmy. It's not like reddit where there's one site. It's more like a whole shitton of very similar sites that overlap. So one rogue mod is messing up a News, just ban that instance and find another one.