Yesterday I created a post on a regional community on lemmy.ca.

Fairly quickly thereafter, I got a DM saying that the post had been removed because someone who disagreed with me complained. Oddly though, the DM came from a @Automod@lemmy.world - not the server hosting the community.

Furthermore, I still see the post when I go looking - and there has been a bit of discussion about it.

So my questions:

(a) Can a post be removed from a specific federated instance without being removed from the original instance? (b) Is there an appeal process for removed posts? I’m sorry that the guy got all butthurt, but my post was sincere, measured, and (I think) reasonable. If it offended someone, they should discuss it.

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I’m curious which post it was? Dm me it if you want.

    Is lemmy.world automod a mod on that community on lemmy.ca?

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      6 months ago

      I don’t think there’s a problem with posting it here. I didn’t do that initially because I wasn’t trying to draw attention to the post as much as I was trying to understand how it all worked.

      And in answer to your question, no the automod is not a moderator on the community.

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        6 months ago

        Wtf, why the hell is their automod touching posts in a community on our instance. They’re not the mods of the entire fediverse.

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          6 months ago

          Yeah, but from what the good folks in this thread have said, their automod deleted the post only on their instance. It’s untouched on lemmy.ca, and any others that federate with us.

          (I think.)

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            6 months ago

            That’s correct, but it still irks me.

            Controlling what your users see via defederation or blocking a community is public, but users aren’t going to notice the occasional post disappearing.

            It’s manipulative in a non obvious way, and prone to being abused.

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              6 months ago

              That’s a very good point. What may be a neutral (or biased for that matter) community ‘at home,’ can be invisibly skewed on another instance by their administrators. That’s actually a bit concerning.