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.

  • @[email protected]
    18•3 months ago

    On Lemmy 0.19.3, reports go to:

    • Community mods
    • Admins of the instance where the community is hosted
    • Admins of the instance of the reported user
    • Admins of the instance of the reporter
    • @[email protected]English
      14•3 months ago

      dang, they don’t just call your mom, they get the whole extended family in here. Grandpas and great aunts and shit

      • Annoyed_🦀 🏅
        12•3 months ago

        It happened this way because a lot of mod action doesn’t get federated too well, so it need ancestral guidance to take action in whole.

        • CorrodedOPEnglish
          2•3 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•3 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_🦀 🏅
            1•3 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.