I was gonna go try to feel righteously validated for a pet peeve of mine over at Unpopular Opinion, but it’s closed. Then I saw this post and it describes some concerns with moderation policies, but the link it references has a bunch of crossed-out text, and I was just wondering if someone is willing to write out the detailed explanation of what happened and what the controversy is.
Some specific examples within lemmy.world that prompted this would be helpful (not a request for you specifically, a general request).
A big problem on reddit is debate-oriented communities aggressively stifling debate and banning people for opinions well within the outside-the-internet window of acceptable discourse. So I can see why lemmy.world would not want to go further down that route if it appeared as if it were beginning to happen. Reddit can semi-tolerate it because there enough users to form niche communities if the big ones are terrible. Lemmy has nowhere near enough people.
Unfortunately t can’t all be (1) or (2) because both extremes are terrible.
.world frequently makes the worse decision
I stand by my assertion that personal discretion is the only approach that can’t be gamed.
Trust the mods with the banhammer, and if they do a bad job, replace them outright.
This still leaves you vulnerable to shitty admins, but you would be in any case.