Opaque moderation bans and removals on federated communities
Federated instance moderators remove or ban political posts and comments with no visible reason or appeal path.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 17 August 2026 · last reported 10 October 2026
What's going wrong
Users of this Lemmy community report that moderators on federated instances remove political posts and comments, sometimes without showing a reason, and ban people for speech that others see as ordinary debate.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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