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.

  • Whitt@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    What’s the problem with this?

    If they can moderate that many groups to the standard each community is happy with is it an issue?

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      1 year ago

      Centralized power in the hands of a few is a bad thing. People have been complaining about power-tripping Reddit power mods for years.

      Because what happens when they don’t mod to the standard the community wants?

      • Whitt@lemmy.nz
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        1 year ago

        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 newzealand@lemmy.nz, newzealand@lemmy.ml, newzealand@feddit.nz, nz@kbin.social, New Zealand@kbin.social.

        If there was a powertripping moderator on a large group like technology@beehaw.org the site admins can remove that mod if it was causing trouble for the overall site.