I sort of disagree, abusive power mods / admins can ruin your interaction with any community, big and small. The only thing that varies is how much of an effect that they can have and whether you have the bad luck to get targeted by their small insecure egos.
The solution is to read a community for a bit before commenting, or especially before posting. Learn what it allows, what it promotes, keep away from those communities you disagree with
I hang out in a large and tightly moderated discord. Its all very public, logged, tracked, and mods make just sbout every decision as a team. Best of all, most warnings fall off after 6 month. Youre forgiven over time. Fuck yeah, I think federation could offer us some incredible moderation paradigms. We aren’t the first to suggest Lemmy lacks moderation tools, of course.
I sort of disagree, abusive power mods / admins can ruin your interaction with any community, big and small. The only thing that varies is how much of an effect that they can have and whether you have the bad luck to get targeted by their small insecure egos.
Is there a solution to this issue?
Ultimately you need some kind of mods.
The solution is to read a community for a bit before commenting, or especially before posting. Learn what it allows, what it promotes, keep away from those communities you disagree with
If people recognize the problem, it can be more robust like our legal systems. Maybe the federated nature of the system could also work towards one.
I hang out in a large and tightly moderated discord. Its all very public, logged, tracked, and mods make just sbout every decision as a team. Best of all, most warnings fall off after 6 month. Youre forgiven over time. Fuck yeah, I think federation could offer us some incredible moderation paradigms. We aren’t the first to suggest Lemmy lacks moderation tools, of course.
Well don’t be vague about it, post the details on a Meta board and let us see if you’re raising an issue that deserves more attention.
It has been, and it has been surprisingly ineffective.