atomicpoet

Assuming good-faith effort, don't you think it's reasonable to publicly call out disingenuous, trollish behavior, especially with that sublemmy being one of the biggest ones across the FV?

Not at all. Trolls can be vindictive and litigious. Call-outs can result in swattings or long drawn out lawsuits.

The best way to deal with trolls is to quarantine them. That is, minimize their reach.

Consider that we don't have the same mechanisms across the FV as exist on Reddit, such that other means of correcting (evidently) terrible decisions (such as making a huge troll a mod on a big community) need to be explored at the very least. I.e., sometimes I think it doesn't help in the end to run away from this kind of problem, and none of us should really want LW to drift towards an abomination such as HexBear, right?

I assume that all servers can be compromised -- even the "good" ones. Which is why you should always consider an escape hatch. And federation itself is that escape hatch.

LW is not so big that it is immune to defederation. It's not even among the top 10 servers on the Social Web either by MAUs or total users. And you don't even need a big server to be seen. I'm on a small server (atomicpoet.org), and from my experience, it's a lot easier to be seen on the Fediverse when you run things yourself.

But "bigness" is also a reason to build more Fediverse servers and redundant communities that exist on those other servers.

Let's be real. What OP really wants is for a certain moderator to not have power on a server she deems as influential. Thus, she's trying to leverage peer pressure in order to make that happen.

But the moderator can join any server or create her own as well. So trying to remove her perceived influence is basically playing whack-a-mole, and because she herself doesn't run any servers, peer pressure is an ineffective tool.

So if the moderator is that objectionable, the reasonable thing to do is either:

1. block the moderator
2. block all communities the moderator runs
3. block LW

If neither of these options have the desired results, then I'm sorry -- that's just life.

OP's problem is with LW allowing a certain person they don't like to become moderator of the server. They could block the user, but their issue is that the specific user has power in an LW community.

If OP doesn't like that, and feels like that moderators presence is a non-negotiable, she has options.

You don't need to wait on Mastodon to do it.

Obviously, I'm not talking about you specifically -- Threadiverse devs generally.

For example, some of this functionality already exists on Friendica.

Right now, you can crosspost to a Friendica group by mentioning the group actor handle (ex: @fediversenews@venera.social. And because Friendica supports quoted boosts, you can boost to a Friendica group through this method.

Lemmy could easily support this feature.

I'm not saying that everyone should block LW. I'm saying that if one has an ethical objection to LW, it's on them to block the server. If they don't want to block the server because of its size, then it's also on them to either promote alternatives to LW or build your own.

No server on the Fediverse is too big for blocking.

I'm not suggesting that you sell your DIY GOG package to someone else. I'm suggesting you do that for yourself.

It really would be so much easier to just boost Mastodon posts into a Lemmy community.

On every retrogaming forum I’ve ever been on, this has been a topic and it’s been a topic for at least 15 years. A few practical bits of advice:

1. The cheapest games will always be last generations games
2. Anything not deemed “retro” yet is cheap
3. Nintendo is always super expensive unless it’s Wii or handheld
4. Anything Xbox is cheap
5. PC is cheap, unless it’s big box, but even then sellers will sell big box for cheap because they often don’t know what they have
6. There’s nothing wrong with buying from GOG, burning to disc, and making your own labels and box art—which is easy to do because it’s DRM-free
7. Except for PS1, Sony is cheap. But even then PS1 is cheaper than N64 or Saturn.
8. Nothing wrong with an Everdrive, especially since that’s the best way to play aftermarket games

The only thing I do with DeepSeek is argue communism with it. When I ask it why everyone isn’t a member of the communist party, it tells me the servers are busy.

OP, sounds like the solution for you is to join another server and block lemmy.world.

I’ll always upvote posts about Jerry Lawson. The Fairchild Channel F was truly revolutionary.