Hey I remember a community I liked called Mealtimevideos - not too short, not too long. Just right for lunchtime.
EDIT: https://slrpnk.net/post/2009611
EDIT: found! https://lemmy.best/c/mealtimevideos
Can no longer find this community. Is it
- Deleted?
- Defederated?
- I am banned?
Edit: The creator/mod was banned from lemmy.world following some bot spam, and this automatically deleted the community.
Really would like if we had... discord style bots that would notify of these changes. I guess there is a modlog, but I have never looked at it.
Furthermore, I find this community was... better curated to my tastes (Video essays, urbanism youtube, and infodump videos) compared to the simple "Videos" communities.
Perhaps I'd like a c/Nebula since most of my favorite creators are now on Nebula and youtube is on a downward spiral.
EDIT: The creator / moderator of the instance replied!
Video discussion is the #1 thing I want to do on social media. I love videos and want to talk about em.
What did the bot account do?
I have a bot account that automatically adds any posted youtube links in certain communities on my instance to a playlist, which can be accessed from the community sidebar. I find this pretty convenient, particularly for communities such as mealtimevideos to have a streamlined place to access all the content when you don't want to go through the lemmy UI.
It is also doing some content moderation in some of my more curated communities to automatically remove posts below a threshold of upvotes. Because my aim for these communities is to have an archive of only "quality" content and clean up all the posts nobody liked. Only the best for lemmy.best™
But while testing some new features I'm playing around with it started spamming posts and comments, that I'm sure got interpreted as spam before I could clean them up. I'm trying to work on a good solution to safely avoiding a bot from ever making reposts.
It was also making a bunch of upvotes/downvotes over and over on the same posts when I was testing something to see how that functionality worked. Ultimately I don't think bots should be allowed to vote, it's super weird that they are even able to.
I thought I was pretty safe to go wild with testing on my own isolated instance, but didn't realize that some of these things were getting federated to a bunch of other instances. My bad.
Ahahaha. I'm so glad this post reached you! Unfortunately bot testing can get messy and so it's best to do it offlin. I certainly cannot blame you, this has happened to a dozen community leaders and its good to tweak and improve!
Have you emailed admin@lemmy.world to try to get reinstated? This all seems like a pretty reasonable explanation if it isn't repeated behavior.