The buttheads (or at least, the people I perceive to be buttheads) will come. It’s still way too early days to try and predict how things will go.
Will it go like reddit, with ‘powermods’ modding 100s of subs and exercising control to further whatever narrative they support? Will the community spirit lead to the ‘buttheads’ fracturing into their own private butthead instance, leaving the non-buttheads to enjoy lemmy together (potentially leading to us echo-chambering)?
Imo it’ll be something like the latter. Ruud seems sensible and reasonable, so I hope would find a way to avoid ‘super’ or ‘power’ mods. And many antagonistic buttheads will quickly find, it’s not as much fun being antagonistic when there’s no-one to antagonise, so they’ll always be popping back in.
The buttheads (or at least, the people I perceive to be buttheads) will come. It’s still way too early days to try and predict how things will go.
Will it go like reddit, with ‘powermods’ modding 100s of subs and exercising control to further whatever narrative they support? Will the community spirit lead to the ‘buttheads’ fracturing into their own private butthead instance, leaving the non-buttheads to enjoy lemmy together (potentially leading to us echo-chambering)?
Imo it’ll be something like the latter. Ruud seems sensible and reasonable, so I hope would find a way to avoid ‘super’ or ‘power’ mods. And many antagonistic buttheads will quickly find, it’s not as much fun being antagonistic when there’s no-one to antagonise, so they’ll always be popping back in.
Are there that many people who moderate hundreds of forums? I thought me having moderator for 20 or so forums was a lot.