Same, some of my posts were removed without being told why. For example /c/pics is apparently exclusive to photography which wasn't at first obvious to me. Still - would be nice to be sent a message when mods remove it
A look at the mod log is pretty depressing. Clearly the mods on Lemmy are as bad or worse than on the old site. 95% of what is removed shouldn't have been, it's just constant power tripping or trying to set the narrative.
While I'm sure a lot of mods have been getting away with murder on reddit and have carried it over to lemmy, it's unfair to characterize lemmy by these The fediverse is the perfect opportunity to begin to demand servers that have transparent moderation and arbitration or that they get put on a block list of the servers that value it. That means being told when your comment is removed and being given a reason. Being sent a notification is something that the server could be doing itself.