Power tripping on the fediverse is mitigated by various factors though:
Public modlogs (as you said).
Federated structure meaning a deranged moderator team can find themselves replaced by a copycat community on another instance if they’re bad enough.
And perhaps I’m a bit naive here, but I’d like to think that no respectable instance admins on the fediverse would allow the brazen behaviour of the r/art team. They’d have long been removed.
I run my own instance. I’m the only Admin, I’m the only Mod, I’m the only user. I “ban” people daily. Of course it doesn’t actually do anything but It’s fun it just feels more gratifying than just blocking someone.
But yeah I’d never allow people to sign up for my instance, I don’t have the time nor desire to admin people and mods.
In this situation I specifically mean instances designed for other people to use. Not private-use instances like yours. Although if your instance (ie: you) behaved badly enough, and notably so - you’d just end up getting defederated.
That is indeed true. Only issue I can see is the copycat community might not outgrow the older community. And I think people tend to gravitate towards the larger community if there are multiples of them. Especially newer users who won’t know of the power tripping mods and will just assume it’s an ordinary community. But let’s hope new users joining the Fediverse have better critical thinking skills and start asking questions if they see a community with a strong and active copycat community.
That is indeed true. Only issue I can see is the copycat community might not outgrow the older community. And I think people tend to gravitate towards the larger community if there are multiples of them.
Thankfully the Fediverse designates community size by active users per week/month/etc when you look them up. Piefed specifically does this. You can’t even see the overall subscribers in the community browser. So this levels the playing field somewhat.
Power tripping on the fediverse is mitigated by various factors though:
Public modlogs (as you said).
Federated structure meaning a deranged moderator team can find themselves replaced by a copycat community on another instance if they’re bad enough.
And perhaps I’m a bit naive here, but I’d like to think that no respectable instance admins on the fediverse would allow the brazen behaviour of the r/art team. They’d have long been removed.
I run my own instance. I’m the only Admin, I’m the only Mod, I’m the only user. I “ban” people daily. Of course it doesn’t actually do anything but It’s fun it just feels more gratifying than just blocking someone.
But yeah I’d never allow people to sign up for my instance, I don’t have the time nor desire to admin people and mods.
In this situation I specifically mean instances designed for other people to use. Not private-use instances like yours. Although if your instance (ie: you) behaved badly enough, and notably so - you’d just end up getting defederated.
That is indeed true. Only issue I can see is the copycat community might not outgrow the older community. And I think people tend to gravitate towards the larger community if there are multiples of them. Especially newer users who won’t know of the power tripping mods and will just assume it’s an ordinary community. But let’s hope new users joining the Fediverse have better critical thinking skills and start asking questions if they see a community with a strong and active copycat community.
Thankfully the Fediverse designates community size by active users per week/month/etc when you look them up. Piefed specifically does this. You can’t even see the overall subscribers in the community browser. So this levels the playing field somewhat.