Admins are quite active behind the scenes (the report queue is constantly being handled).

Personally, I have stopped posting on my main account for the most part, as my identity is more or less public information, and this has been used in some attacks against me. So for regular posting, I am using a more anonymous alt account. But the instance is definitely not abandoned.

Just quickly popping in to point out that this is not an innocent question. The OP of this post has been banned and warned repeatedly over several instances for extreme transphobic behaviour, and is now in charge of the conservative community on lemm.ee.

Here is the moderation log on them: https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/modlog/view?target=1733316

As you can see, this post comes 5 hours before an extremely transphobic post they themselves submitted, was removed by the admins. I complained well prior to that action, on their forums, complete with receipts, and had my comments deleted and was given a one day ban for "harassing the mods". By posting their history of being banned for the kind of post they had just made.

They were well aware of their actions. They were checking to see if they could get away with it, and were dearly hoping the admins were sleeping.

Do they need to say anything? At least this instance is still working.

Looking at one of Sunaurus' last comments: https://lemm.ee/comment/3660174 , dealing with the shitheads wasn't treating him well. I hope he's OK and at least somewhat still believes in the idea of this place.

Nope, upgrade announcement just went up.