Hi there, I hope you were able to catch some of the other comments but memes are captured under rule #3:

Describe images/videos: Please provide an explanation in the self-post body when sharing images or videos. Memes are not allowed.

Sorry for the late reply, I was away for much of the weekend until yesterday and thought we had gotten a reply out to you. Based on this discussion, we created [email protected] as a compromise between folks who want memes and those who do not. We’ve been aiming to find a balance between being more lenient during this period while also remaining responsive to user reports, which we did receive for yours.

You can typically find an explanation of the removal reasons in the modlog (when accessed from the community sidebar). Unfortunately, Lemmy doesn’t seem to be handling user notifications too well but hopefully this improves in the near future.

Edit: Apologies for the multiple posts. App went haywire on me… Lemmy growing pains!