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Theoretically, anything.
In practice? Mods abuse their power here at similar rates as those on reddit.
It's good we have the modlog to see for ourselves why moderation teams shouldn't be taken seriously, but it hasn't stopped them from doing what they want, when they want.
It'll be nice when people start recognizing the need for open discussion and we get more fediverse instances that allow freedom of speech.
The Lemmy world news sub is a trans rights echo chamber.
I fully support trans rights and hate the rhetoric against them. People should be allowed to live their lives the way they feel comfortable within reason and law.
But Jesus. I blocked world news when I got into it with an mod who said I'm a transphobe when I brought up a trans issue. Sighted that I had multiple downvoted comments as a slight against me.
If you can't listen to criticism get off the internet.
I had the same thing, because I thought they were being too vicious against people like author JK Rowling's while people like Kirk went around talking shit with impunity that was labeled trans hate.
There was Zero plausibility, I called out what I think is an overly aggressive in some parts campaign that has made things worse and was immediately accused of being a bigot myself and then blocked and canceled. No discussion or mod notes just your banned.
People learn they can shut down criticisms with bigotey accusations no matter how flimsy and they use it. Meanwhile they lost the larger cultural fight while they were falsley accusing allies of bigotry. As always on a left purposefully played off each other by organized interests.