Greetings... I'm just hearing about Lemmy and find it cool. I have a question regarding harassment - and ironically, it's one reason why I've come here from Reddit. Let me explain...
I'm the mod of the most popular subreddit critical of cryptocurrency. Obviously crypto is a popular and controversial subject. Our community is focused on exposing the fraud and the scams in the technology. But those who are running such operations really don't want our community to exist, so they've been repeatedly reporting us to Reddit for "harassment" - basically if they make absurd claims about returns or get hacked and we find it amusing - they consider that "harassment" and now they've sanctioned our community. But we've actually not been told we violated any specific harassment policy -- just that some people complained.
So we're wondering where we can go where speaking truth to power isn't so dangerous? Anybody can file a complaint, but when the complaint is hollow, still being punished is bad. How would Behaw handle something of this nature?
EDIT: btw, my apologies if this thread may pertain to a specific incident of harassment.. I thought maybe it was a general thing - if bringing up something related but different is inappropriate, let me know and I'll delete my comments. But I am hoping to talk about both sides of the "harassment" issue. There's legit harassment and then there's also fabricated harassment.