Admin comments on lemm.ee: https://lemm.ee/post/55846636/18367529
tl;dr for lemm.ee:
In short, somebody posted a pro-Elon-Musk-doing-a-nazi-salute Valentine’s Day meme and the mods left it up so people started complaining in other communities and the admins realized “you know, we never see reports from our instance’s most controversial community” because the mods were quick to act leaving everything up. So the original salute poster was banned and all the mods were dethroned as the admins are taking a wait-and-see approach on what to do with the community.
I haven’t found a comment about what happened at .world yet but there are zero mods for their community too.
Power tripping mods getting their comeuppance!
-former /c/conservative mods probably.
To be fair, though. Wasn’t the Musk “my heart goes out to you” valentine actually a Daily Show joke thing? I can see it easily being appropriated by conservatives… but was that what was actually happening?
https://parade.com/news/the-daily-show-bold-political-statements-unhinged-valentines-day-cards-fan-reactions
I really wish they would have went with “I’ll worm my way into your heart” or maybe a pun with worm and warm for the last one.
“I’m always goering to be reich there for you.”