That’s an inevitable part of community, it requires trust. Users need to trust admins not to mess around with the service and admins need to trust users to not make maintaining the service untenable.
Federation also helps balance the dynamic here as admins can’t hold the community hostage like they can on closed systems.
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That’s an inevitable part of community, it requires trust. Users need to trust admins not to mess around with the service and admins need to trust users to not make maintaining the service untenable.
Federation also helps balance the dynamic here as admins can’t hold the community hostage like they can on closed systems.