It looks like a lot of mistakes were made in your case. I saw your posts asking about dialogue and such. I'm surprised no one has reached out to you because, speaking for myself, when I remove something and give an explanation in the modlog and I'm asked more questions by message, I always reply and explain myself. I'm sure someone will interact with you if you send an admin a message. I looked at the log and it looks like a script or other automated action is to blame. The admin actually caught the issue and tried to restore your posts. It also looks like it was a "suspected spam" type of deletion that was corrected. I understand your irritation. I wouldn't want to be in your situation because you took lots of time to add content to a community you care about. However, it looks like one of those things we call an "honest mistake" that somebody on the admin team tried to take back. I haven't seen a case like this, it's very eye-catching to me, because it's so obviously a mistake. To help make you feel better, I'll tell you a little story. 2 years ago I spent about 2000 bucks on a Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop. I took it to a computer repair guy to clean the dust out of it on the inside and replace the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU. He used a forced air compressor to clean the fans and didn't see that a loose wire on his work table was inadvertently in contact with one of the cooling fans. Snap! Broke the fan. He apologized personally to me (like, you know, face to face) and promised me he would replace the component he broke free of charge, plus do the whole entire job in front of me so I could see what he was doing. He fulfilled his promise. I must admit, it was quite boring to sit through watching him take out all the screws, etc. But he kept his word and did the right thing. The people that run lemmy world seem to me to be a lot more honest than dishonest and also very willing to admit they screwed up if they screwed up, just like my computer repair guy. I'm very certain that if you pm an admin the very admin responsible for the error will write to you personally. You were just unlucky. Somebody wrote a bad script or was tired and wasn't thinking clearly. I think it says a lot about how someone attempted to restore your posts. Also, if the images attached to them can't be recovered, is it too much work on your part to delete the empty restored posts and just make new posts with the images? Maybe in between posts, you can count to ten so it doesn't look like spam or something? I think that would help make your community look nicer and more appealing to subscribers who like comic book art.

I do not know if this is often or no i am sorry it happen to you i like the types of posts you make as euro comics are very good maybe admin will give you apology here too

People just need to spread the word that that particular Instance might have some bad policies going on, so others can make more informed decisions.

Right, and I feel like that's a big part of what OP is doing here. I think we just have to let the reputational dust settle and go with that flow.

What I'm also concerned about is what kind of failsafe the big instances have. For example, if something happened to my instance-runner and the place went down, federation would only help so much. So altho the content would be preserved, all those communities would be dead in the water, and their subscribers lost. That would be a terrible blow after months or even years of building them up, plus providing content, which is what I've been doing steadily for two months now at my place. If I had to start over at another instance, I don't think I'd have the heart, even though I've tried to locally archive everything, including a good chunk of the reviews I write by hand.

All that said, I am still hoping this is some kind of innocent mistake or technical bug.

Yup, hopefully. On the surface it's a disastrous one, and the admin I'm talking to has put in a ticket, at the least. But it's turning in to a good bit of hard work we didn't need to manually restore some of the lost image content. Most of the content is gone however, despite the posts being restored.

Whole situation bloody well sucks, and wasn't helped by my colleague OP receiving no communication or explanation of any kind. AFAIK they *still* haven't been contacted, so we're talking at least two major failures on the part of LW.

Never give up , change instance and continue with new stuff , forget about what was lost. Your effort were amazing and even more with one of the most brilliant comic artists. I would recommend mine, it’s very open minded and admins are accesible

Yeah, it's the instance the images were uploaded to that matters

That instance hosts the community OP was uploading to though.

ahh. guess I missed the part where the images were deleted by a lemmy.world admin...whoops

I was missing a bunch of comments up until recently ... the must check English language box in a brower on instance site, not in app, issue...

They are well within copyright in terms of timeline. Anything after 1927 can and likely is subject to copyright. I don't like it but that's how it works. Given that they are images from trading cards, it would not surprise me if the rights holder was enforcing copyright through a third party service.