Looks like r/antiwork mods made the subreddit private in response to this post
This fiasco highlights that such forums are vulnerable to the whims of a few individuals, and if those individuals can be subverted than the entire community can be destroyed. Reddit communities are effectively dictatorships where the mods cannot be held to account, recalled, or dismissed, even when community at large disagrees with them.
This led me to think that Lemmy is currently vulnerable to the same problem. I’m wondering if it would make sense to brainstorm some ideas to address this vulnerability in the future.
One idea could be to have an option to provide members of a community with the ability to hold elections or initiate recalls. This could be implemented as a special type post that allows community to vote, and if a sufficient portion of the community participates then a mod could be elected or recalled.
This could be an opt in feature that would be toggled when the community is created, and would be outside the control of the mods from that point on.
Maybe it’s a dumb idea, but I figured it might be worth having a discussion on.
I’ve been echoing this frequently lately. A lot of comments on Lemmy say that Reddit is hive-mind, censorship by mods, etc. Lemmy is absolutely no different if you get one or several bad-actor mods on the scene. I really like the idea of democratizing the mod of a subreddit, but that might have a host of it’s own issues like people creating alt accounts. Ideally you would have some sort of participation requirement or time limit on the account.