Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

A screenshot of a poster on Reddit /r/Tennessee trying to post about the election, and a mod removing the post while not really pretending there's a good reason to remove it
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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags

That's a really big distinguishing factor though. When a group gets "too big to fail," it becomes a problem by giving said group too much control. Look at the genocide apologist mods on /r/worldnews .

The de-centralization / fragmentation of Lemmy is an important check against bad moderation.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    You absolutely bring up good points yes, but at the same time, I don't think its a check, so much as a mild mitigation. Even on the lemmy verse there are still mega subs that take on the most activity and gain similar types of "too big to fail" critical user bases.

    The core problem, is that when a group gains disproportionate control over what users can see, they can push their views/twist arms, and that ultimately isn't solved here.

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