I keep seeing here people say “Its better here, because reddit has power hungry mods”.
But…what checks are in place here besides “create a new instance, and run your own duplicate community”?
To me, thats like the nuclear option. It’s something that ultimately hurts the fediverse. 1 community with 50 users is a lot stronger than 5 communities that all post essentially the same content with 10 users each.
And ok, maybe the time comes where you DO need to create the alternative duplicate community. Maybe the Lemmy mod has gotten power hungry. So a second community is created. Whats to say the second community won’t have power hungry mods as THAT community grows? Now you need a third community…and, you see where this is going.
I haven’t seen any power hungry mods on here YET, but everytime I ask the question how would it be handled, the answer is always “you could always create another instance/community.”
But in my opinion, that hurts Lemmy. So the thing you’re solving better be 10x more harmful than the harm you’re creating by fractioning the userbase.