People don't understand that a lot of interactions are driven by corpos paying PR shops to drive desired narratives.
The "modding" everyone complains about is censorship to suppress unfavourable facts. The mods ain't power tripping, their doing their jobs as expected by the handlers.
So it's just efficient? Ok.
Explaining your actions may be the right (prosocial?) thing to do but right is not the point. Control is the point.
And 99% of the people here never say anything deviant enough to get censored over anyway. So what's a few edge cases.
That's kinda cynical, which I can appreciate.
It definitely shows that the power structures have their hands in any relevant social media discussion. I would posit that mods pay critical role with that system.
Most recent example is modding we get on main subs re Luigi... Some how censorship on fedi was stronger than reddit, at least week post the denial of life.
The pattern of behaviour is is the same. Tjere is a topic, it need to be discussed a certain way, people generally small minorities will say wrong thing, they get removed. Narrative holds up.
With Luigi public sentiment was so strong that they could not suppress the genuine public opinion hence why reddit didn't even try for the first week.
Here we had mods argue all sorts of weird shit and none of it really landed. The rules are vague enough to remove any wrong think they need.
Mod logs will show a pattern of behaviour.
Israeli genocide in Gaza is another topic where mods shill regime narratives.
But theh don't do over everything, you can do culture war circle jerk all you want.
Also, mods are no uniform bit mods for each sub have their specific narrative and they will never accept discussions that would undermine it.
You can criticize Israel but only in sanctioned way.
Another example is kamala prez campaign... No discussion, either you shill her or you are removed.
And fedi ain't even a speck on social media land scape but we sure got a full blown gestapo field office to heard 50k monthly users lol
So decency is out the window. We are just participants in our own mindfuckery.
I guess we need to find the "most free" Lemmy instance. Are there reviews?
Good discussions happen in the meme subs which is kinda ironic.
But anything of high traffic will attract bad faith actors for "modding"
Fedi itself is pretty resilient since it is decentralized, so at worst it is a sub ban or instance ban on ml for disrespectimg she-pooh
Also there other reasons why mods could make their discussions clearly but there is definitely pattern of behavior.
Good discussions happen in the meme subs which is kinda ironic.
I've noticed that too. It's like a forest fire (high popularity, enshittification?) went through there and now healthy stuff grows. Probably a cyclic thing.
What we need is truly niche subs. Which by definition must be hard to access.
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.