Will something be done about moderators owning 50+ magazines/communities and counting? Already seeing power mods migrate from Reddit trying to hoard as many communities as possible.

  • Do you think they are actively trying to become moderators of those communities or is there a chance they’re trying to recreate the subreddits they’re accustomed to?

    • BrooklynMan
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      11 year ago

      there’s no way to tell, but if past behavior is any indicator of future intent…

      • modifier
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        21 year ago

        The way that the fediverse works should make it more challenging for someone to squat on communities. There are plenty of instances which means there is plenty of competition. Am I missing something?

        • KaynA
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          11 year ago

          I’ve seen at least one problematic individual I know from Reddit on here, creating and requesting communities en masse.

          They even had the gall to enter the Instance Administrators Matrix chat and ask dessalines why community requests were taking so long.

          I’m not sure if they’ve quite understood how the fediverse works.

  • Gaz
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    31 year ago

    If you’re concerned, just don’t sub to them. Just creating communities in itself shouldn’t really be a problem, I’d rather hope for the best than assume that every person making these is a power hungry basement slug.

    • scientiamOP
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      21 year ago

      That’s fair but my assessment is rather than enabling that behavior, cut it off at the source by limiting the number of communities to be made per user. Sure, there’ll be alt accounts, but it’s better than just looking the other way and pulling another Reddit.

      • HobbitFoot
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        21 year ago

        But that isn’t the point of Lemmy.

        The developers have no control over what communities get created by design.

        Anyone can become an admin, so Reddit power mods can go to the friendliest servers or create their own.

        The system is designed to not be able to enforce what your are describing.

  • Yote.zip
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    21 year ago

    I don’t think anything needs to be done that isn’t already possible. If someone on your instance is taking 50 communities as a mod and you think it’s abuse/malicious/powermodding, report them to your admin and see what they think. Other than that, just don’t sub to their communities.

  • @Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    What needs to be done?

    If c/technology on Lemmy.world gets squatted on by a power mod that wants to power trip, that doesn’t mean anything for c/technology on Lemmy.ml or any other instance. That’s the beauty of it.

    • OrangeSliceM
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      11 year ago

      Yeah and the instance admins can also step in as they’d like (which may drive traffic to/from their instance based on their decisions)

  • @Whitt@lemmy.nz
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    11 year ago

    What’s the problem with this?

    If they can moderate that many groups to the standard each community is happy with is it an issue?

    • neonfire
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      11 year ago

      Centralized power in the hands of a few is a bad thing. People have been complaining about power-tripping Reddit power mods for years.

      Because what happens when they don’t mod to the standard the community wants?

      • @Whitt@lemmy.nz
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        11 year ago

        I’m not understanding your concern. If there’s a powertripping moderator that’s causing trouble there are options. The group can split and migrate elsewhere, just like the reddit migrants have who came here.

        The fediverse is much harder to consolidate tightly. There are 5 New Zealand communities for example spread across the fediverse currently. One is large and the rest are tiny. If the mod/admin for the large one started being a dick the users would move elsewhere after a lot of whining. This was not as easy on reddit because there could only be one /r/newzealand. Currently there is newzealand@lemmy.nz, newzealand@lemmy.ml, newzealand@feddit.nz, nz@kbin.social, New Zealand@kbin.social.

        If there was a powertripping moderator on a large group like technology@beehaw.org the site admins can remove that mod if it was causing trouble for the overall site.

  • Lvxferre
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    01 year ago

    Squatting and similar problems should be solved by the admins of an instance, not the whole “environment”. And you can be fairly certain that someone squatting on 10+ communities won’t be able to nurture them, they’ll be eventually outcompeted by the others.

    • @Admetus@sopuli.xyz
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      11 year ago

      This is true. Even if there are 12 technologies and you sub to all of them, it hardly affects the end user. The true question is: which community will the users post and comment most on? Most likely the best and most reasonably moderated community.