deleting a community: right side, click the trash icon:
communities disappearing from your subscribed list typically mean that you have been banned from that community.
subscribe pending can have different reasons. it might be that this includes getting banned from an instance, but it can also be the result of some other technical issues.
It does indeed seem to have been an issue with loading metadata for the image at the time.
I'm not sure if sdf pict-rs was slow at the time or what was causing it at this point, but Lemmy cut it off after 9 seconds of processing the post and that's where it failed. Unfortunately the logs don't give a reason currently.
If you remove your vote on the post and restore it after a minute it will likely trigger it to get processed properly, although this is obviously not a usable solution.
We'll have to look into if we can improve this somehow.
hello, i've removed the deleted moderator account from the community now. this makes your current account the top mod and should allow you to delete the community now.
if this is still not working for you please let me know.
It's not automatic, admins have the option to ban with or without content removal.
Different instances deal with this differently and admins are also humans that sometimes make mistakes. Especially during holiday season there are frequently trolls running around with racist, transphobic or other offensive content. Sometimes they're more obvious, sometimes they try to fly under the radar a bit by being less direct. In the end you're at the mercy of the instance admins of the instance you signed up with and many instances will provide contact information to appeal bans.
Since this account was not a Lemmy.World account it's not up to us to decide whether or not the user should be banned and whether their content should be removed.
If you're referring to the post Ex Redditors of Lemmy what made you come on over? What happened at Reddit that you made the switch?, their account was banned for trolling and all content associated with the account was removed.
They also had a number of other posts that seemed to be doing just fine, so it might be falling in the "stupid kid" category.
2FA has been restored for all LW users that had it enabled before and didn't reactivate it on their own since.
There will be an announcement posted later on explaining what happened.
edit: announcement is out: https://lemmy.world/post/18503967