As a person who just left reddit due to being tired of reddit mods’ power tripping, I asked folks here what are their reasons behind migrating here from other forums (most likely reddit too). It seems like none of the folks who answered had complaints on reddit mods. Do folks here not feel the same about reddit mods as I do?
I heard Lemmy mods are volunteers too. How do they compare to reddit mods? Did Lemmy do anything to ensure no power abuse to happen?
The major difference between the forums is that Lemmy, for better and worse, have more active admins due to the nature of Lemmy. You are definitely going to have more active admins, which will influence how mods act.
Ok so have you ever seen an admin acting (unless you are one yourself)?
A few times.
The act of federation and defederation is an admin role and I’ve seen discussions where admins ask their users. The defederation from exploding heads and Threads is an example of that.
You have the allowing or removal of subs in an instance. That came about when some alt-right subs started appearing in lemmy.world and they were deleted.
You also don’t have the hard line between admins and mods on Lemmy that you have on Reddit. Beehaw and startrek.website are meant to be highly curated instances where the mods and admins work very closely together. In some cases, admins are also mods.
So, yeah. Admins play a far larger role in Lemmy than Reddit.