The federative structure of the fediverse means that your average community moderator is way more accountable than a subreddit moderator is on reddit, to be fair.
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ech@lemmy.ca 2 days agoDo you really expect the platform that lets anybody form their personal power tripping fiefdom to inexplicably not draw those people in? No centralization doesn’t mean you’re free of the particular flavor of power tripping you experienced, it means there are many cells of various levels of power tripping with little to no oversight.
Skavau@piefed.social 2 days ago
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 day ago
In theory maybe, but have we actually seen a community migrate away from a sub or the admins step in because of power tripping?
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 32 minutes ago
Yeah, I saw one that got so ugly, IIRC one admin stepped in to say “hi”. It was the split between the c/Risa mod and some commenters, leading the rise of c/TenForward. Was this a year and a half ago?!
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Onehundredninetysix and the Trek meme split.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 day ago
The 196 mitosis was due to mods literally closing the sub, what caused the trek split?
Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day ago
Well that wasn't due to power-tripping though. That was because lemm.ee shut down lol
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
My hope for the Fediverse is, sure. We can just allow people to be sad little kings of their sad little hills. If it’s enough of a problem, everyone else can go to some other community, possibly on some other instance.