So we wouldn’t honestly be allowed to know legally without getting that admin in trouble.

i have no idea whether any of the speculations are true or not, but purely theoretically, this is really lame excuse. if you are representing open source community, you shouldn't be taking meetings where you have to sign nda.

I did actually switch from lemmy.world to lemmy.ml and turn off recurring donations just off of the weak admin announcement they made about Threads like "let's just wait n see, hmmkay?"

Umm. No, you're in an anti-corporate environment full of refugees from greedy Reddit and you can't denounce one of the worst corporate actors in the social media space and promise to have nothing to do with them? I have no idea if OP's story is true, but I do know that they're not the instance for me just from what they HAVE been willing to say.

People using an instance that appears to try to act and communicate transparently and asks for donations from the community to run the platform, should actually be transparent in my opinion.

People can just go somewhere else, and no one is obligated to say or do anything, but users appear to value transparency, and I feel as a collective we should value open and honest discussion about issues like this rather than shutting it down or being confrontational or argumentative or rude about it.

It might be nothing, it might be something: either way, people are entitled to feel they deserve to be kept informed. Whether they are entitled to or not is a different kettle of fish.

Does profile transfer even matter?

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Profile transfer tool

The fediverse is particularly bad in this respect. In my time here (since Nov 2022) I've come to treat any unsubstantiated negative ad hominem opinion as essentially "fake news" ... and honestly, everyone should. Twice I've paid attention to "an issue" as it was gaining traction and both times I've seen, in real time, the "chinese whispers" effect result in the "story" mutate right in people's "mouths" as they post about it. Honestly, it's worth chasing down such a thing at least once just to see it in action ... it's quite revelatory.

It's "sea lioning" to ask for receipts ... but if you're polite and well-meaning about it I think it's totally justifiable about these sorts of things, not least because you'll be surprised how many people just don't have any (sometimes even when they loudly claim they do)! But also, because the rumour mill effect is real, sea lioning, at some point becomes a valuable antidote.

There are probably a few factors that make this bad here (not that it's good on any social media platform):

1. Fediverse is kinda anti-viral ... no algorithms etc
2. But ... bad news and scandalous rumours are the original viral algorithm baked into human psychology, so they have a way of rising to the surface in the absence of the generic rage/engagement about anything/everything that big-social feeds provide
3. There are real and valuable concerns on the fediverse about ensuring the "culture" here doesn't get bad and that certain values or morals are upheld. While good, such is an excuse for some to get zealous and excited to an excessive extent in the pursuit of and engagement with scandalous rumours.

Combine that with how easy and satisfying it is to simply post a false/unsubstantiated statement without any consequences, and you get a rumour mill.

Getting back to point 3 above ... a valuable an important perspective on that is that actually achieving those goals is not a simple or trivial task. Instead, it is likely a boring, collaborative and deliberative task. So, the moment there's any amount of excitement and engagement around a "bad person or act" on here ... the moment you feel the need to click, read and respond ... you're probably just being driven by engagement habits and reflexes and not at all contributing to the goals and values that the "bad actor" has allegedly compromised.

Typically yes, but in this case, there is no modlog for the reason of removal since the logs got purged by the admins. They forgot to delete the other log which says the user was banned and reason being "Misinformation"

There a modlog button at the bottom of the page, you can see for yourself, but they might've be deleted by now.

Edit: Apparantly, the user was only banned from the community, his account is still not banned.