Hey, that’s awesome.

Seriously. I was saying somewhere else that it would be nice if we had the specific examples of what communities were “abusing their mod powers,” to help figure out whether this is a good policy or a horrifying policy. These are exactly the type of one-viewpoint communities that I really don’t think need to exist on Lemmy.

Moderators have the power to enforce only one viewpoint within their communities, in the software. That doesn’t mean that culturally, that should be an accepted thing to do. It should be met with the ridicule that it deserves, and if we’re taking a step towards that, then hooray.

Of course, none of this guarantees that this policy won’t slippery-slope its way down into forcing moderators to allow trolls of the friendly-to-the-admins variety, but I am hopeful, I guess. Not hopeful enough to resubscribe to a bunch of lemmy.world stuff I’ve been happier being unsubscribed to, of late, but hopeful nonetheless.