I mean, the behavior of the community speaks for itself. They try so hard not being the thing they ran from three years ago, but in the midst of their attempt, they end up evolving into the very thing they ran from. Its like they just didn't like being on the platform of origin, promised they'd do better, then realizing how separated they are to where they just recreated it by instinct.

Power-Tripping Mods, Gaslighting Users, Immature Moderators, 100 Rules to follow but contradicts itself .etc

I can just go on and on and on. Oh and I don't even care about this stupid debate that happened between .ML and .World because there's virtually no difference and it is just nothing but a sissy online slapfight.

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Unpaid moderators should have the freedom to act according to their personal preferences. If moderation becomes a problem, the platform's federated structure also facilitates creating alternative communities.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think a bit of a problem is, how it only facilitates creating alternative communities. I mean it definitely does... And now we have 15 technology communities. But that in itself isn't necessarily better. And it's super confusing for beginners who now need to learn all the drama and find out whether they want to join technology, or technology, or tech or another technology... It'd be better if we somehow managed to go some extra mile with that kind of functionality. I have all the expert knowledge to tell apart the tankie community from the anti-zionist one, from the pro-AI one... But that regularly takes a good amount of experience and getting yelled at. And I can see how it can be a bit of a letdown for newbies. They might just want to get started with some Reddit alternative without all the identity war and confusing (and not obvious) fragmentation.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Less fragmentation is definitely better, so while the option to split is always there with more options than are available on Reddit, ideally communities should stay united to avoid dividing already small userbases.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a way to join two communities into one?

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

Piefed has a feature to combine posts from multiple communities into feeds, but otherwise community consolidation consists of a moderator restricting one community to mod posts only and using a pinned post to redirect users to another.