Don’t make me laugh, it’s not socialism! it’s bro-ism, 'cause, I got you bro. If everyone got their bros and we all bros then we can do absolutely anything bro!

Duplicate communities aren’t a replacement for subscribing to moderation. If we split a community in 10’000 pieces it would not really make sense to call what remains “a community”.

Even now when a community has a schism and you get only one alternative, that community gets split in something like 90/10 and it becomes a distinct community, not just a choice to ignore top mod’s authoritarianism. In partice most modetators remain impeachable and their abilitt to shape what the community is unchallengeable without everyone facing nearly insurmoubtable friction, like the need to entirely reorganize as a group and basically start over the community.

Ultimately lemmy and reddit exist to concentrate soft power of persuasion in the hands of a few and this is structurally, systematically assured and I don’t think this will ever change on lemmy, we’re already in too deep.

This is the future for the next decade. It will not change without going through the cycles of abuse over and over while the moderators will suppress any public awareness of their biases and abuses, suppress any form of organizing against them and this will continue until the unignorable stench becomes impossible to ignore. Until then, just suck up to whatever the mods tell you to believe, keep your head down and just try to survive.

The niderators ARE the problem. Their task is impossible and futile. Everyone has to do it and that means the infrastructure for it will not exist as long as a team of idea shaping moderators stands in the way.

We need

Locally running open source content discovery algo

Locally running user reputation evaluation

Subscribeable moderation actions

Crowd sourced reputation weighted moderation

The ability to tune all those setting under the hood

As a civ player, I know a cultural victory when I see one.