I recently created a Europe community on lemmy.dbzer0.com to act as an alternative to the Europe community on Feddit.org since that one has had some controversy and is becoming less viable for discussing current events in Europe, especially relating to Israel.
The new community allows much of the same content as on the old one but also allows news and discussions related to the conflict in Israel and disallows genocide apologia (can’t believe I have to advertise this as a feature). If that sounds like something you’re interested in I urge you to check out !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
That particular user who was banned for sockpuppeting has made literal hundreds of accounts, they were originally known as Antiyanks. They’ve been making new accounts constantly since 7 months ago so they can avoid being banned for treating people like garbage and accusing them of supporting genocide without any sort of merit to it.
The comments weren’t removed for what they said, they were removed because the user is a serial ban evader who makes accounts just to harass people and it’s clear by now that they have no intent of participating in good faith. They just want to yell at people.
If that’s the case, then the evidence connecting those accounts to “Antiyanks” is what the admin should’ve cited, not a bunch of examples of comments that were – considered on their face without context – mostly actually pretty reasonable positions to take.
As it stands now, I have little reason to believe that I could post “just create a secular state that respects people’s right” on that instance without risking a ban.