I came to a post on this community where a user said that a certain community was zionist. But their comment was really long and I wasn’t sure if it had been removed for that or something else. So I wanted to test it myself.
I went to that community and posted something that’s only offensive to zionists. My post was pro-jewish and anti-zionist, so there was no way to confuse it as meaning something else. I wanted to see what would happen. Either it would get removed for zionist reasons, get removed for other reasons, or stay up. That would answer my question. It got removed because the mod said they felt rage baited. That answered my question. I linked the post and the modlog here as evidence, to share my findings. Now everyone knows for sure whether that community is zionist.
What I wasn’t expecting is Ada’s response. She said in the modlogs she also felt the post was rage bait. I didn’t see that coming because I didn’t think Ada was a zionist. I thought she would be fine with seeing zionists get angry, because they get angry over the most mild things.
Is Ada supporting zionism?
No, it didn’t. Three reasons why:
Ada was never in danger of having extra work because of that post.
You’re a Blahaj user, she has a responsibility to moderate your posts and comments according to the instance rules no matter where you post. Hence why any reports on your comments go to your instance admin, as well as the community moderators and the instance admins of the community.
This is how things run on the fediverse to more equally share the load of moderation around. Instances that refuse to do this labour for their own users end up shunned, such as Hexbear refusing to rein in the actions of its own users.