Comment on It is deeply bad that a moderator can remove any post or reply.

• superkret@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The instance admin is legally responsible for everything posted on their instance.
  Giving all the control to the users would literally carry the risk of going to prison.

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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That doesn’t make having a moderator any less bad

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• hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a user, you can:

  • Review instance and community rules prior to participating
  • Review the moderator logs to confirm that moderation activities have been in line with the rules
  • If you notice a discrepancy, e.g., over-moderation, you can hold the mods accountable and draw attention to it or simply choose not to engage in that instance or community
  • Host your own instance
  • Create communities in an existing instance or your own instance

  If you host your own instance and communities within that instance, then at that point, you have full control, right? Other instances can de-federate from yours.

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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am aware of that. But still, giving somebody the power to arbitrarily censor and modify our conversation is a fundamentally bad thing.

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    • hypnicjerk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      go outside and have conversations in person if you’re genuinely this concerned about it. you fundamentally have very little control over your device or network connection without deep technical knowledge, so maybe start there?

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    • hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then why are you doing that, and why aren’t you at least hosting your own instance?

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      • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s a discussion of principle.

        This is a foreign concept?

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s embarrassingly ignorant.

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