There should be lots of flux and turnover in communities, instances, and their staff. It should be rare (but not strictly forbidden) that the premier place for discussing a particular topic stays on the same server under the same management for 15 years. Moderation of busy forums should be a temporary, shared, and mostly low-effort activity that can take advantage of good tools & automation.
Everyone should moderate something. Or rather, every serious user should at least learn how to operate moderation tools, so they know how they work and what moderators are actually capable of doing. This would, among other things, defuse a lot of FUD about moderation.
I agree everyone should participate in moderation. The interface would facilitate and encourage it. That is the original purpose of likes, a sorting algorithm. Moderation is a layer on top of that.
Currently, Lemmy encourages all user to use the same server and to go to a specific server for a specific community. This is a flaw in the federation system.
Lemmy.ca should not be the only place you can post and be read by /c/Montreal for example
Would this largely be solved by having forums about Montreal on multiple instances, and a configurable view (like “multireddits”) that presented them together to the user?
Contrary proposal:
There should be lots of flux and turnover in communities, instances, and their staff. It should be rare (but not strictly forbidden) that the premier place for discussing a particular topic stays on the same server under the same management for 15 years. Moderation of busy forums should be a temporary, shared, and mostly low-effort activity that can take advantage of good tools & automation.
Everyone should moderate something. Or rather, every serious user should at least learn how to operate moderation tools, so they know how they work and what moderators are actually capable of doing. This would, among other things, defuse a lot of FUD about moderation.
I agree everyone should participate in moderation. The interface would facilitate and encourage it. That is the original purpose of likes, a sorting algorithm. Moderation is a layer on top of that.
Currently, Lemmy encourages all user to use the same server and to go to a specific server for a specific community. This is a flaw in the federation system.
Lemmy.ca should not be the only place you can post and be read by /c/Montreal for example
Would this largely be solved by having forums about Montreal on multiple instances, and a configurable view (like “multireddits”) that presented them together to the user?
Yes, on each instance “all” should represent a agglomeration of all communities and this should be the default view for all instances.
Instances should be your gateway to the fediverse before they are a repository of local content.