!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Is generally the community where people alert others to mod abuse

Lemme tell you about Lemmy, the community of loquacious learning

I just tell people about open source reddit, it’s called Lemmy.

We have to be diligent, and work hard, to keep the fediverse balanced. If it tends to concentrate in a few areas, we might see a tendency to centralize and control.

I didn’t read anything except OPs post here, where they self characterize their interaction using mythology and religion.

Thanks for digging into it!

Moderation is sometimes about finding the smallest touch that keeps the conversation going forward. People have bad days, etc.

you sound like someone who enjoys having arguments, when you have arguments with people sometimes they don’t want to talk to you anymore. It’s the cost of your personality.

Attacking someone’s position as mythical, religious, is combative… and wont be welcome in every community. Even if your right, being combative isn’t going to help convince people your right.

if you want to have constructive debate with people, try to respect their positions, and the experiences that got them into the positions they are in now, even if you disagree with the position. If nothing else, being polite to people will make third parties who read the discussion later more receptive to your ideas.

As far as your meta-moderation ideas go, lemmy is federated, you can always create a new community and moderate it to your liking if you find the current communities inadequate. The ultimate referendum in any society is being able to replace and abandon old corrupt systems.