They have a rule in the sidebar that clearly goes against the instance rules. They can appeal and if they don't have anyone to do that there is another problem because that goes against the moderation rules on this instance.
I didn't want to remove it out of a kneejerk reaction. They had this in their sidebar:
Rule #6: Banned subjects include pro-Nazi and/or pro-racist sentiments; support for conspiracy theories such as Q-Anon, International Jewish Conspiracy, Holocaust denialism, etc.; “is X the mark of the Beast?” drivel; anything calling for direct/indirect violence against any individual or group, including LGBTQ+ individuals or groups; pornography of any kind; gore; spam; asking for money; pro-Mormon and/or pro-Jehovah’s Witness posts.
Edit: they can repeal this decision. If they remove that line from their rules and live by it we are up to having normal conversations even if we don't agree with the viewpoints.
But our stance on LGBQT is clearly laid out in the instance rules. We want to provide an inclusive platform. There are enough LGBTQ people who are christians.
EDIT: The community's moderator/owner hasn't been online in over a month. If anyone wants to take over this community and make it follow the Lemmy World rules then contact me.
How would you even know that it is the same person if they use two separate accounts?
Say someone does something against the rules, gets banned. Creates another account and does the same thing. We will ban them again if they violate the server rules but how would we know that it was the same person?
Unless it's an obvious troll posting the same stuff over and over on different accounts.
That question keeps coming up as if users can not create multiple accounts to circumvent that. As I said as long as they manage to get teams together and actively moderate those communities following the community guidelines and server rules there's not much that can be done. And this is NOT reddit 2.0 - there are other instances were the exact same communities can be created and grow.
They don't really but if you search for a community, let's say "drumandbass" you will see all of those communities on all instances and subscribe to all of those. And if you don't agree with how one is being run you can either help grow another one or star one on another instance from scratch.
There is a link icon next to the username in the search results