I posted this meme to the Lemmy Shitpost community. I reckoned that it might generate a bit of debate, and would probably end up locked, but the entire post got deleted, and moreover, I’m now forbidden from sharing political posts to the community. Political posts are not against the rules of the community.
I have reason to believe that the post was deleted not because it was controversial, but because the moderator (Decoy321) disagreed with the political slant of the meme. The reason I find this suspicious is because other controversial posts, such as one about veganism remains up, and Decoy321 seemed to enjoy the fact it was controversial:
They might be using an app. Some of them show a more detailed modlog.
That helped, thank you! I looked at the API request directly in raw JSON, and I can confirm it was indeed Decoy321.
“you’ve started quite a shit show”
well excuse you for not assuming a shitpost community would be such a refined and gentlemanly establishment 🤣
No problem.