I heavily recommend, for anyone moderating communities in lemmy.ml, to migrate their communities to other instances. Otherwise you're exposing the other users of your comm(s) to rogue admins. The administration of lemmy.ml is garbage, and it engages on
- witch hunting
- enforcement of hidden rules
- censorship strictu sensu
- blatant lack of transparency
- taking the userbase as gullible sheep to be herded
- trigger-happiness
Also, from my experience migrating a linguistics community from lemmy.ml to mander.xyz, I genuinely believe that communities thrive way more if they're in suitable instances. I think that you described it rather well when you said that "it feels like I’m screaming into the void over there".