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I was glancing through the mod log and saw these two entries. Conspiracy theory communities were both removed for violating rule #3.

What are these rules? If I look in the side bar, rule #3 on both lemmy.ml and sh.itjust.works to me looks like no porn. So why were conspiracy theory communities not allowed? That seems like kind of a community that shouldn't be an issue on Lemmy... are conspiracy theory subs really something that won't be allowed here? Honestly that's kind of disturbing to see already...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it possible that the posts made on that specific community were specific to Qanon? As in, a conspiracy theory community wouldn’t be blocked just for being a conspiracy theory community. But if the community was flooded with Qanon specific posts, they might remove it because that’s specifically against rule #3.

I’m in no way arguing for or against this, but wondering if that’s closer to the logic they followed. I would love a good old fashioned conspiracy community, but they do have a tendency to pull in a lot of crazies. Do we know what the posts are like?

[–] CocktailPlasma 1 points 1 year ago

https://lemmy.ml/c/conspiracy https://sh.itjust.works/c/conspiracytheories

There's maybe one or two posts of a political nature in there, but the vast majority of the posts have nothing to do w/ any of that type stuff and are just general conspiracy-related posts. So it seems pretty heavy-handed for lemmy.world to simply completely block both communities, IMO.