For anything important, use matrix instead of lemmy DMs.
Realistically, not really.
To be honest, these days, most bans are for obvious spam, *phobes or the occasional CSAM.
Just don’t post dentist adspam (which is oddly common) or be that one person who posts their cartoony-kiddie-diaper-fetish thing.
Assuming that’s the 2 recently removed posts in the modlog, I’ll check if I can see what happened to those reports.
The post themselves were to our “test” community and first seemed to me like they were just random strings, but from the context I’m reading they might have been part of some onion link?
SJW doesn’t ban email domains, IPs nor VPNs.
To my knowledge, we’ve alsp never shared specific details about users with dotworld or other instances for that matter.
I myself would take offense about leaking any of this info.
The only thing I can even think of is we might have shared something like this once or twice during bigger spam attacks:
this last wave of spammer were all made in the last hour and fit the following pattern “5 letters, 5 numbers @ sketchy domain dot com” without sharing actual user info.
Edit:
I don’t know about dotworld, but at least on our end, there’s only TheDude and me who even have access to see a user’s email address.
The only other times we’ve really even checked one was before 2FA & password reset worked properly.
We even have users who didn’t want to provide an email at all which we’ve verified manually through matrix.
Oh yeah, I’ve seen the guillotines being censored in some places. /eyeroll I don’t get it, there’s no corporate overlord to appease here, no advertisers, no IPO.
I’d argue for content removal if you were to post specific plans to take specific violent action.
Mostly because it’d be utterly dumb to plan something high profile on a public forum.
By all means, do so on something actually private and secure that won’t result in either of our doors being busted down.