Tbh, I’m active in some modless subs, and apart from the occasional spam or lost redditor it mostly works. r/Arduino (iirc) for example is unmoderated and not exactly small.
People downvote garbage content and it gets hidden fast.
Compare that to e.g. r/showerthoughts which is so heavily moderated that you need a masters degree just to manage to post there without getting your content deleted or r/WiiUHacks where the mods ban you for mentioning the wrong Wii U hacking project (e.g. Pretendo).
The AI moderation is crap as well, but the upvote/downvote system is robust enough to work as a makeshift automoderation system.
silasmariner@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I mean, that’s clearly a rule that considers size of sub a factor, so, um, what?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s social media, people only react to the headlines… they don’t educate themselves on the issue because that would interfere with them generating the next hot take.