I’ve debated this in a few comment sections now. I feel like it probably goes to the community moderator. As far as I am aware there is no option to report a community on Lemmy besides making a post about in some meta community or messaging the moderators of the instance.

I’ve heard people say your instance admin decides if the post gets removed but that doesn’t sound right to me. If I self-hosted an instance and reported it that would mean the report would bounce right back to me.

Would appreciate some input here for clarity.

  • CorrodedOPEnglish
    2•9 months ago

    I suppose that makes sense. I feel like that might lead to a lot of unnecessary reports. Like if one instance doesn’t allow right-wing or NSFW content but federates with one that does. If a user reports it then the other community/instance is going to hear about it. It’s easy to ignore but legitimate reports might get swept up with them.

    • AdaEnglish
      6•9 months ago

      So, I admin a gender diverse instance. We have a zero tolerance policy on transphobia, including the “just asking questions” stuff and dogwhistles that many folk don’t recognise.

      Some of those accounts will not get actioned by either community mods, or admins where the remote accounts are based, but because I get the reports on them from my users, I can ban them from my instance, which means their content will never show up in the feeds here.

    • Annoyed_🦀 A
      1•9 months ago

      Yeah, i do get report from my user about content i have no moderation on, so i just tick the “solved” and moved on. Though my instance is small, so that is still manageable.