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[–] Corgana@startrek.website -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

About 30% (just my estimate) of the people here from Reddit had a problem with mods having too much freedom granted to them by Spez. There is an irony that such people would be attracted to a decentralized network where instances have even more freedom to shape their communities, but as you said- it doesn't really matter what people think when anyone can go start their own.

[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Genuine question, is that 30% a real number with a source?

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just my estimate based on observation. It's been my experience that most of the people on the Fediverse seem to want strong moderation tools, but there's definitley a contingent that would prefer a looser form of moderation (or none at all). The cool thing about the Fediverse is that both can peacefully coexist.

[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 4 points 1 year ago

The cool thing about the Fediverse is that both can peacefully coexist.

Ya I love this feature of the platform. Some instances can be strict on what content they want to have (e.g. beehaw and exploding-heads) while others can be the libertarian platform of their dreams (e.g. personal instances).

It would be interesting to see some polling on this, but I'm no statistician and wouldn't be able to perform it in a way that wouldn't be bias, nor could I account for that bias. 😔

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer looser mod powers

Reddit mods were capricious and drunk with petty power