It especially leads to harassment of vulnerable people. There's many aspects of moderation that is done here that if implemented in other fediverse software would become a vector for Kiwifarms level harassment.

Yes, very well said. I think this form of checking out is what's happening to Reddit and why moderation there is increasingly just doing the bare minimum of spam removal and letting toxic users run roughshod. Why put effort in if it's just going to cause strife?

Maybe this is the syndicalist in me talking, but I think the problem is entirely pretending that Lemmy moderators and admins are and should be expected to work for free. It's just too much work, too much daily upkeep, to reasonably expect to be handled by a volunteer labor force forever.

That's obviously a whole other drama with FOSS as a whole but there's simply a different level of labor and difficulty inherent to running a large internet community than making a program and dumping it on a download site.

And that's when you jump to another instance, no?