I like you’re approach. It’s exactly the way Relay handles it.

That being said… Maybe you need different UX for mobile vs Web?

Any system will have scenarios like this. Requiring a majority of mods could lead to gridlock if enough mods stop being active. User vote would be prone to abuse by brigading or bots.

Seniority is the simplest: you make the sub, it’s yours. The escape hatch is either Admin action or someone else making their own sub with blackjack and hookers.

I’m not sure that should really matter much though. Lemmy is federated, open-source, and makes zero revenue. It’s not like the developer has much control over instances other than his own or even the code it runs on, ultimately.

It’s not super surprising that communists would be drawn to the fediverse’s design philosophy and while I might think he’s misguided politically the software isn’t really his at the end of the day, even if he is the lead maintainer.

It’s not the same issue as closed platforms have like Facebook+Zuckerberg or Reddit+Spez. If he starts messing with the project the community can take it and leave.

Not only that but the design encourages that the majority of the community not be on the instance he controls from the outset.

I kind of like them. Adds a dash of jank my teen-during-the-2000’s sensibility enjoys.

Similar idea: https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376?gi=cd412a4f533d

Tolerance is a peace treaty between society’s sub-groups. When one group breaks that treaty it’s moral and necessary to respond in kind and not tolerate them.

If a country rolls tanks into your country it’s not immoral to respond in kind to defend yourself. Same idea applies to intolerance.

The thing that should scare advertisers the most isn’t just the slight dip in revenue, but that those users are moving to ad-free sites. Those impressions are unrecoverable by redistributing spend away from Reddit.

You could run metrics on how often you have to moderate users of a given server vs you’re own. Hit a certain threshold and that instance is de-federated. Open registration might not mean much if the mods of that instance are proactive about banning people.

But I’m obviously biased. I like the vibe on Kbin and hope we aren’t de-federated from Beehaw. I’m signed up to a bunch of communities here.

Why not Kbin.social directly? We’re federating again!

Or they’ll just be a smallish instance building the kind of community they want to build. There’s nothing wrong with knowing what you want to be and not trying to be more.

Yeah, they’re saying “look, we only have four mods, have a highly targeted type of community we are trying to build, and have had to disproportionately moderate users from these instances” which seems reasonable on it’s face.

That’s kind of the beauty of Lemmy/Kbin right? You can spin up an instance with whatever rules you want. I think people are reacting to the fact that during the Reddit exodus Beehaw kind of looked like a “default” general instance, including me.

But that’s a misreading on our part, not them going back on that.