Will something be done about moderators owning 50+ magazines/communities and counting? Already seeing power mods migrate from Reddit trying to hoard as many communities as possible.
Will something be done about moderators owning 50+ magazines/communities and counting? Already seeing power mods migrate from Reddit trying to hoard as many communities as possible.
Do you think they are actively trying to become moderators of those communities or is there a chance they're trying to recreate the subreddits they're accustomed to?
The way that the fediverse works should make it more challenging for someone to squat on communities. There are plenty of instances which means there is plenty of competition. Am I missing something?
I just did the latter. Made every community I liked on reddit but couldn't find here. There is zero mod work needed so far but when there is I don't want to hold a monopoly. Though on some other federations I have seen the former happening.
If c/technology on Lemmy.world gets squatted on by a power mod that wants to power trip, that doesn’t mean anything for c/technology on Lemmy.ml or any other instance. That’s the beauty of it.
Exactly! That's the great thing about the whole concept of Federation; it means that if you don't like how a community is moderated you can make your own on a different instance. And if you don't like any of them or demand even more direct control, you can spin up your own instance.
If you're concerned, just don't sub to them. Just creating communities in itself shouldn't really be a problem, I'd rather hope for the best than assume that every person making these is a power hungry basement slug.
That's fair but my assessment is rather than enabling that behavior, cut it off at the source by limiting the number of communities to be made per user. Sure, there'll be alt accounts, but it's better than just looking the other way and pulling another Reddit.
Squatting and similar problems should be solved by the admins of an instance, not the whole "environment". And you can be fairly certain that someone squatting on 10+ communities won't be able to nurture them, they'll be eventually outcompeted by the others.
This is true. Even if there are 12 technologies and you sub to all of them, it hardly affects the end user. The true question is: which community will the users post and comment most on? Most likely the best and most reasonably moderated community.
I don't think anything needs to be done that isn't already possible. If someone on your instance is taking 50 communities as a mod and you think it's abuse/malicious/powermodding, report them to your admin and see what they think. Other than that, just don't sub to their communities.
I'm not understanding your concern. If there's a powertripping moderator that's causing trouble there are options. The group can split and migrate elsewhere, just like the reddit migrants have who came here.
The fediverse is much harder to consolidate tightly. There are 5 New Zealand communities for example spread across the fediverse currently. One is large and the rest are tiny. If the mod/admin for the large one started being a dick the users would move elsewhere after a lot of whining. This was not as easy on reddit because there could only be one /r/newzealand. Currently there is [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], New [email protected].
If there was a powertripping moderator on a large group like [email protected] the site admins can remove that mod if it was causing trouble for the overall site.