I've sent in my appeal and i'm sure the removal will be quickly reversed, it's still very extremely disturbing such a thing could happen.

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• This is a good quality post [8 up, 0 down]
• This is a good quality post whose author is being harassed by some weirdo [8 up, 1 down]
• This comment is part of a heated argument that's 8 comments deep [1 up, 1 down]
• This is a political post. Communists and Nazis are fighting over if it's a good post or if it's the actual spawn of Satan [8 up, 8 down]
• This comment has been removed by the moderators [0 up, 8 down]
• The poster immediately regretted posting this [0 up, 0 down]

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• [8 up, ? down (down arrow is smaller)] This instance hides downvotes so you can't tell if it's actually a good post or if it's just a part of some circlejerk
• [8 up, 0 down (down arrow is sideways)] This is loss
• [9 up (arrow is sideways), 11 down] This is a national tragedy
• [Two arrows pointing at each other with ?s above them] Two people are accusing each other and you don't know which one is right so you just kinda don't vote on this one
• [69 up, 42 down] Regardless of the quality of the post, you dare not disrupt the delicate balance of such a specimen by voting
• [69 up, 43 down] God fucking damn it.

This tab works like Subscribed only in reverse; it only shows stuff from comms you're not subscribed to. Perfect for finding new content to subscribe to without needing to sift through All.

Kind of like how you can do [in-line links](to link people to a website), allow the user to use the same syntax to create contextual information that appears when the [user mouses over](Similar to alt-text on an image). This way users who know the context won't have to slog through a tedious wall of text while those who don't can optionally bring themselves up to speed. For clarity sake in-line context will be a different color to a link, and those on mobile (or desktop) can click it to expand out the contained text as if it was part of the original comment.

EDIT: it might be a good idea to potentially use different syntax so that you can link websites within in-line context.

Every 1 hour the bot takes the previous top voted action and performs it then pastes the screen and begins the next vote in an "exhilarating 1 frame per hour" playthrough of Pokemon Gold. You get pinged when the vote ends. If nothing is voted on, it picks at random.

So far Mastodon named themselves FRY, attempted to pull an item out of the PC but instead exited the menu and went downstairs.

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Otherwise known as the spiciest meme on my hard drive.

As it stands right now, individual mods have way too much power to fuck up the platform by banning people for political reasons and the modlog is not even remotely adequate in providing a full story on such actions. This isn't too big of an issue now, but as certain instances have proven, it has the potential to become a federation-wide problem if it's allowed to continue.

On reddit, the platform Lemmy was made to replace, removals are logged (r/undelete) so that any interested party may look into them, the users are warned of the action so that they know not to behave as such, and the affected parties can (in practice, most mods will just instantly mute you) have a chance to appeal. Here, your posting history is instantly wiped out with no chance of seeing the light of day, you're given a nebulous reason in the mod log, if any, and you have zero tools for correcting an erroneous action. You're just wiped out instantly with most of the people you've interacted with not even having knowledge that you're gone.

There's also an issue where removing a comment which is rightfully due for removal (for example: dogwhistled bigotry) also removes any comments below it explaining why the original comment is bad. This leads to a situation where mods are either forced to either keep up the hateful rhetoric alongside its callout, or remove the comment while also wiping out the educating material. This is an example where I feel redacting could be an acceptable option to keep the community safe while also allowing bigots to face the music for their shitty views.

The tools Lemmy provides to deal with evil on the platform are opaque and inadequate, and have high potential for being used in bad faith by bad actors seeking to destroy the platform itself, and have even caused friction among users in good faith in the past (as many warring instances, federating and defederating have shown) Ultimately a healthy federation comes from having moderation tools which protect the average person from being exposed to evil, while also giving a complete picture to those want to look into the why and how of a removal.

And for the love of god, if an instance bans you, please don't require you dig your own grave by having to block each and every community from that instance manually, one by one.