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!
I heard the mods on the lemm.ee one were dismissing reports to protect the posts and users who were rightfully reported. So they deserve it, and it was probably the best thing that could’ve been done, second to banning the community outright of course.
The one on Lemmy.world was probably a very similar story, and if I remember right that community was nothing but trolling and occasional bigotry. As are most conservative communities on the Fediverse.