Idk man. Sockpuppeting and brigading means there are a bunch of users who all create multiple accounts with the sole purpose of evading moderation and in this case be hostile towards the place. It’s notoriously annoying to deal with that as a mod. And people do things like “walking the line”. Stay just an inch below the threshold of open toxicity with a new comment, so it’d technically be allowed. It’s still abusive behaviour, though. And IMO deletion is warranted. The content itself (what you spoke about in that comment) isn’t itself the important thing if we already know it’s from someone doing ban-evasion and bending and breaking the rules. The question is just whether these are sockpuppet accounts. The mods say so and it’s not really disputed by anyone, at least not in that thread, in fact the brigade or alts seem to then pop up in yepowertrippingbastards, so I have a hunch that the mods were right.

I guess I didn’t know Lemmy’s moderation tools were still that bad and it’s a decent chunk of transparency missing in the modlog. That’s not a good thing. Though I feel none of this drama is really “good”. Complaining about mods and then making an “alternative” with even more strict moderation is a bit silly if you ask me, I’m not sure whether this is a joke or not. But I get that this isn’t about free speech, but some petty feud in miniature, and about having a home-base for the brigade.