Fediverse

I'm much less convinced that that these things are meaningfully different in the fediverse:

• It's as easy to shift subreddits as to shift lemmy communities. Self-hosting and "owning your data" doesn't really factor into the effort required to migrate a userbase to a new community.
• Reddit has duplicate communities as well. Lemmy is exploding in usage right now and there's a lot of uncoordinated duplicates happening right now, but it seems fairly likely things will consolidate in short order as functionally unmoderated communities drift away from their topic and well-moderated ones accumulate posts and users.
• Lemmy mods of multiple communities could block someone on all of them as easily as blocking someone on one, though the modlogs WOULD leave an audit trail of that action so compiling evidence of poor moderation is at least structurally easier.

We don't see powermods right now, and I hope we don't in the future. But if we don't, I think that will be mostly due to cultural factors rather than federation itself. Though as noted the modlog is a powerful tool to expose bad mods generally, irrespective of how many communities they moderate.