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People just need to spread the word that that particular Instance might have some bad policies going on, so others can make more informed decisions.

Right, and I feel like that’s a big part of what OP is doing here. I think we just have to let the reputational dust settle and go with that flow.

What I’m also concerned about is what kind of failsafe the big instances have. For example, if something happened to my instance-runner and the place went down, federation would only help so much. So altho the content would be preserved, all those communities would be dead in the water, and their subscribers lost. That would be a terrible blow after months or even years of building them up, plus providing content, which is what I’ve been doing steadily for two months now at my place. If I had to start over at another instance, I don’t think I’d have the heart, even though I’ve tried to locally archive everything, including a good chunk of the reviews I write by hand.

All that said, I am still hoping this is some kind of innocent mistake or technical bug.

Yup, hopefully. On the surface it’s a disastrous one, and the admin I’m talking to has put in a ticket, at the least. But it’s turning in to a good bit of hard work we didn’t need to manually restore some of the lost image content. Most of the content is gone however, despite the posts being restored.

Whole situation bloody well sucks, and wasn’t helped by my colleague OP receiving no communication or explanation of any kind. AFAIK they *still* haven’t been contacted, so we’re talking at least two major failures on the part of LW.

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Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
When dealing with a volunteer project, even a large one, I would allow multiple days for communication.

They do not have a staff and structure like a company would, so we cannot hold them to the same standards, that is not reasonable.

We’re probably always going to get fairly bad customer support here, most likely. Unless they start charging a fee or putting in a lot of ads or something.

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- JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I understand and agree with those things, but disagree that OP’s situation fits that kind of model. No, in this case it was a slew of LW failures that I should think would drive most victims away, no matter the setting.
  
  Consider:
  
  user is banned for evidently no reason at all
  
  user is seemingly in compliance with all site rules & guidelines, including image upload rules
  
  user has no previous strikes or violations
  
  no communication of any kind is offered to user for the ban
  
  the user is also locked out of their acct, with no way to appeal from said acct
  
  the banning agent evidently remains unknown, days later
  
  one unrelated admin got involved only after the community owner personally reached out to them
  
  unfortunately, said admin has very little tools or ability to investigate any of this
  
  despite the light (24hr) nature of the ban, all of the user’s local image content is evidently destroyed irreversibly, representing many hours and days of work
  
  Understanding and excusing part of that due to the volunteer nature of LW is one thing, but IMO this is a next-level clusterfluff.
  
  Indeed, I understand that LW previously put a lot of effort in to attracting Rexxiters, to some degree at the expense of other instances, and maybe this is what it looks like when there isn’t enough staff & process to handle the magnitude of userbase the instance runners desired. Maybe that’s something to consider as well, when volunteers sign up for a project.
  
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  - Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I do not think it is wise to consider more things until we have more perspectives on what happened. Is any of this time sensitive, and requires to be addressed today?
    
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    JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    We can only construct our working conclusions based on the known information, which is what I’m doing.
    
    Yes, and there *is* a time-sensitive nature to this stuff that needs to be quickly addressed, starting with the amount of repairs my mod and I will need to coordinate on in order for our sub not to look like a hot mess. Unfortunately, him being in a very different time zone means there’s almost nothing I can do until tomorrow morning.
    
    This would make little difference if the community had low presence and activity, but we now have almost 300 subscribers, are growing fairly quickly by Lemmy standards, and are in the presence of ‘getting the word out.’
    
    I understand your perspective and your seemingly benign intent, but frankly, you’re not helping. Just like instance runners and their staff, we are ALSO volunteers, aiming to serve and support our userbase, have been working hard on this project, and have every right to feel aggrieved for the stated reasons.
    
    Feel free to have the last reply if you like, but again-- you’re not helping here, and I don’t plan on responding further. Good day.
    
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