This community sidebar reads:
This Community is intended for posts about the Lemmy.world server.
That means announcements from the team, issues you see etc.
But I’m seeing off-topic posts that cloud the purpose of this community.
There’s a featured mod post by Sun-Spider that indicates these non-server related posts should be in the general community.
Full disclosure: I reported some posts and heard back from two admins, supplying contradictory info. One asked me to stop reporting as the posts were allowed, and the other thanked me and mentioned there’s some internal confusion.
Since this is all new, even for the mods/admins, I want to be clear that I’m not trying to throw anyone under the bus or stir the pot. I’m just hoping for some clarity so we know where to direct these posts, and where to watch for updates.
Edit: removed links to off-topic posts
Honestly, the community should be called Lemmy World Announcements or something instead of just lemmy.world, which is vague and communicates nothing to the user. I don’t know if Admins or mods can change the community name.
As server/instance announcements are incredibly important, I humbly suggest that this community be solely for server announcements, and nothing else. Can admins or mods restrict who is able to post here? Can they make it so only admins/mods can post, but everyone can comment? That seems ideal.
Then create a new community called support@lemmy.world, or @lemmyworldsupport, or something like that for user questions, input and feedback about the instance