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There was a post the other day about a “powermod” from reddit who was doing the same thing with lemmy communities - snatching up dozens of names and squatting on them. Folks are rightly asking for restrictions on the number of communities any one person can mod, along with other safeguards to prevent power-tripping.
Is there any incentive other than showing who’s boss on the internet? I struggle to see how the amount of time and energy involved in moderating just one community, let alone multiple ones, are worth it just to get a power high. It seems exhausting.
The problem was that mod was doing it on lemmy.world, which was the default instance for a lot of users.
It isn’t as valuable to do here as someone can create a new sub on a different instance, but it was still annoying.
Can moderators of a sub ban people from the instance or is there just an overlap between moderators of that sub and moderators of the instance?
Is this what leads to “you’ve commented in so we’re gonna ban you from ”?
I’ve never encountered that myself. What communities are you commenting in that you’re getting banned elsewhere for it?
Some instances censor incoming and outgoing swear words, I was surprised to learn.
In my experience, they censor slurs of all varieties but you can still say “fuck” “shit” and “piss” as much as you wish.
Unless you’re quoting, I have no problems with slurs being removed. If you wanna be like that, X will love you.
Honestly, even quoting is suspect. Unless the quote is to prove someone else said it, it doesn’t seem to me to benefit anything at all.
There’s barely moderation, much less overreach.
Nonexistent.
