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Some of the moderators within federated instances including most of Lemmy are such pearl clutching, pathetic fucking losers, that the level of censorship happening here will likely triple due to the influx of big corpo social media pushing people out who don't conform to the status quo.
But not the Mods of this instance, right?
Sorry Emp. You're one of the biggest target around here.
But I've lost loads of weight!
Every instance, including this one, will likely have said pathetic loser pearl clutcher who doesn't like naughty words or deletes comments based on their own unequitable biased opinion. So, fuck-to-the yes.
There's always the other route instances can take, not enough censorship, where the instance gets overrun by nazis a la 4chan
A very good and salient point that I am unwilling to refute because I agree
Ask yourself if you’ve ever met a socially well adjusted human who is a long term moderator.
I’ve met plenty of decent people who have moderated for a time (at the very beginning of a community for example) or tried it and then walked away.
But never someone who does it for years on end.
I assume it’s because long term mods seek power they lack in their own lives because of poor social adjustment but happy to read a paper on this.
I would love a platform that has collective community moderation through content flagging and voting which does away the need for mods.
This simply isn't possible. If no one has responsibility, the community will inevitably devolve into chaos. Flagging content doesn't accomplish anything if there's no one to actually remove the clearly unacceptable content. If there's no clear rules and no one to contact about moderation decisions, communities just wouldn't be able to function at larger scales.
As for the other part of your comment, first of all it's foolish to use blanket statements and absolutes. However, I wouldn't disagree that some long term mods do seek power. But you also have to consider burnout, as it's a thankless job where you get exposed to the worst of the worst, and if people don't simply quit after a few years, they may become more harsh in their moderation practices as a mechanism to protect themselves.