I’ve defended lemmy.ml in the past when people have blamed the entire instance for the actions of a solitary, overzealous moderator, but this genuinely concerns me:
This must have been action taken at the instance admin level, considering all those communities have different moderators.
Is there any way to probe the modlog to see which account it was?
This is exactly it for me, too. Despite having significantly more users than Lemmy, Mastodon still feels much less social.
Case in point: I went looking for journalists to follow, because that’s one of the main uses I had for Twitter, but found almost none. Of the few I did find, almost no one was interacting with their posts at all. I even saw one journalist post a plea to her followers to boost, like, or just do something because she was on the point of giving up due to the lack of response she was getting. It was sad, quite honestly.
There needs to be a way to help users find content to engage with that doesn’t require an algorithm to force feed it down people’s throats.