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submitted 1 year ago by grey@discuss.tchncs.de to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Lets say I have an account on lemmy server A, and with my account I make a lemmy community. Some people post in it. Everything is cool. But for whatever reason the admin/owner of the lemmy server your lemmy community is on decides to ban you. What happens to the community you made? How does the lemmy software respond to it? Does your community get banned with you? Or does the community just get stuck without any admin and people can still post in it?

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[-] grey@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

Hunh. So they could just boot you out and take your sublemmy, lol.

[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

we like to refer to that as "pulling a reddit"

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are setting up a booth in someone else's house and then complain that they have the right to kick you out?

There is always the option to do it in your own house via self-hosting your own Lemmy instance.

[-] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The same could be said about reddit. It is their house, do we not have any right to critisize they're actions here?

I disagree. An instance can have it's rules, regulations, etc. but if they step outside of that to ban someone and take over their community, this is a scummy thing to do.

Reddit should not have removed mods, nor should a lemmy instance admin, unless they've violated a reasonable rule-set

[-] Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Define reasonable.

That's only part joke.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

It was always a mistake to abandon self-hosted forums for the convenience of centralized Reddit.

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

There are plenty of those same forums still in active use today which you could go back to. The problem they have which reddit solved is fragmentation. Of course, they solved it through centralization, which brought it's own set of problems that Lemmy now aims to solve. It seems like an elegant solution to me which gives the best of both worlds, but I guess we'll all get to see together how well it truly works.

[-] grey@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

No I'm asking questions so I learn how it works.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

They could, but they will develop a very poor reputation if they do this for frivolous reasons.

[-] Limeey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If this concerns you, make your own instance and disable creating new communities. Plenty of instances are doing that to house the content they want and nothing more. Through federation you'd be able to be found and accessed by other instances so users can post and engage, and if you prevent user logins and interact only with your community through that instance user, you'll never have to worry about pulling other federated instance content either.

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