• admin @stinky of redlemmy.com (tiny instance with <10 users) gets in an argument. they run the instance so they are “in charge” of that small part of the fediverse but they let that tiny power go to their head.
• other user is uncomfortable and reports admin
• in the current version of Lemmy, all reports go to both instance admins and the local community mods
• the user @stinky was harrassing obviously primarily intended the report to he seen by local community mods, which it was, but it also went to redlemmy.com admins, which happens to include @stinky themself.
• admin sees the report and harrasses the other user for it (in the comments shown in the post)
• local mods (correctly) remove the power tripping admin as shown in the modlog

Did you had a run in with the mod before?

i’m not involved in this, purely an outside observer