Did you ever have that feeling on reddit of “I better word my post just right, otherwise AutoMod will take it down”? Some subs had such strict auto moderating that it was a crap shoot to post something. Not so here. I know there’s value in moderation, and I’m sure Lemmy/kbin/etc. will add more of it with time. But, for now, it was just nice to not be nervous when I was submitting a post here.
Right now Lemmy / Kbin are still in the “blackjack and hookers” phase of building our own (better) Reddit. Even our biggest subs are 1000X smaller than their Reddit counterparts, which means that there are fundamentally different ways the community can be moderated. If the platform keeps growing at its current pace, don’t be surprised if you start to see changes to the algorithms and auto mod (such as curating your feed so you aren’t bombarded with thousands of posts per second)