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The same is happening across Lemmy. I have had many posts deleted from lemmy for allegedly breaking the rules, when they do not, not really. Power hungry mods seem to be a human attribute, not a reddit attribute. And, on lemmy, we should be doing more to stop that. I find that lemmy.world has tons of power hungry mods, such as those in pics and asklemmy.
This is an example of such a removal: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/77781886. It had 40 comments. Removed by a mod without any reasoning explained. I had to look into the modlog to find a reason. The reasoning was "not a quest, just a rambling" (paraphrased). No, it was a question, you can see the question mark there. And more important than that, it was getting the community to engage, it had 40 comments.
Power hungry mods is one thing, reddit gave us powermods - coordinated moderators who push an agenda. Reddit admin supported powermods in the takeover of many subreddits shortly after they pushed through the API change that killed 3rd party apps.
Allegedly, Ghislaine Maxwell was a powermod in r/worldnews - and it would make sense for Epstein's associates to be among that number, given that Trump's main base started in 4chan (on /pol/, created after Epstein met 4chan's founder) and found its way through to the mainstream via reddit and r/the_donald.
But the solution to powertripping mods is the same here as on reddit: make a new community, with blackjack and hookers. Arguably this is even easier here as you can make the same community name on a different instance.
Some mods are gatekeeping any new posts by being pedantic about rules. it's almost impossible to post.
I think, there's some soft censorship too.
Either it's the mods downvoting posts early or it's the level of users they have cultivated.
I feel like many IRL communities have been hijacked in some way. Like the Denver and Colorado subreddits.
I can't find anyone who hasn't been mass downvoted and it doesn't seem to align with the upvotes. It doesn't seem like certain topics are off limits it seems much more like the entire idea of community organizing is off limits.
That might sound like a strange theory until you see how much the Governor is worth.
https://youtu.be/f0RK_yjdMXQ
Not to mention smaller elections have brought that level of social media manipulation. This town had a mayor who won by like 8 votes and felt it was worth it to flood social media with posts about "how great the water is".
https://youtu.be/583G9pl_w_I
Now look at an Englewood, CO subreddit post about the water. There's very little arguing, but a ton of downvotes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/englewoodco/comments/1txrd3o/englewood_restaurants_filtering_water_or_lack_of/
https://www.reddit.com/r/englewoodco/comments/1u19v64/is_the_water_just_a_lil_gross_or_actually/
Meanwhile..
https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/oy4vsz/psa_e_coli_in_englewood_tap_water_how_fun/
It's not exactly the best water. It has had issues, but you get people jumping in to say it "meets EPA standards". You see the same lines getting thrown out like someone has been leading what they should say. If you were to point out that EPA Standards is ambiguous and that many EPA standards have been lowered and with less enforcement, it's like no one could even hear you.
The good news is, many people simply leave those subreddits or don't participate. The bad news is, how powerful an effect on perceived consensus it can be to come into those threads without knowing the baseline.
Has no one done an analysis on subreddit votes?
I have been researching what would be needed to show correlation between the topics and the votes. Because you can still pull the rss of new comments and posts.
At this point an ai bot for moderation like shieldstral is better.