General Discussion

Luckily there's a bunch of instances not just lemmy.world. If we find it's starting to get too centralized we can always subscribe to other communities. Or am I wrong?

@ktr41n Same problem in Kbin. Some people register a ton of magazines (known as community) and do not moderate at all.

While I grant that there probably are a handful of people who can mod a dozen or more smaller communities and not power trip, I think they're probably the exception to the rule, and we shouldn't encourage it. The more communities you mod, the higher the standards should be for community engagement.

Is there a (feasible) way to crowdsource/democratize modding? E.g. having mandated regular elections in place for mods, alternatively for the rules? The latter being better maybe. If rules are voted/agreed on and then either the admins or some external, neutral ,(non community/"subreddit"-level) instance jury/court could handle complaints where the users feel that a mod has not acted appropriately/implemented the rules decided on

Id rather have a mod owning multiple communities than communities without mods. Not a lot of people want to take the job to mod communities.

On the other hand, if the mods are sensonring the communities, then they should be removed from them