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ConstantPain@lemmy.world 6 days agoI’m worried that mods here are starting to abuse their power as have happened on Reddit and have seen some instances of it. A lot of people fled Reddit because of it and will not stick around for the same bullshit here.
So making mechanisms to prevent this kind of behavior must be a priority.
OpenStars@piefed.social 6 days ago
Much progress has already been made.
In Lemmy, the federated nature offers freedom not so much to the end user but to instance admins who can pack up and move or even make changes to the codebase rather than simply blindly deploy each new version.
PieFed takes this several additional notches forward by allowing democratization of moderation, e.g. rather than a community making it a rule to allow “no USA politics”, instead users can turn on their own keyword filters, or a much gentler rule of “USA politics must use the USA community flair”, thereby allowing the decision to remain in the hands of the end-users rather than one mod team ruling them all.