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If you make a lemmy, and the your admin bans you, what happens to it? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Define reasonable.

That's only part joke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.