I’m splitting this into two parts. First identifying the issue. And second my personal idea for a solution. I’m hoping for a lot of discussion so please be clear which part you are responding to.

Part 1: The problem

Reddit as a platform has many flaws. Obviously being a corporation means they’re terrible no matter what. But their platform is also flawed. Even if Reddit was 100% community owned the platform would still be flawed. The number one thing that is ruining Reddit are the tyrannical mods.

Each community on Reddit is a dictatorship. Whoever is arbitrarily in charge of a community has full unrestricted power to do whatever they want. The people who are actually creating the content and sharing it are totally at their whim. I understand that modding is a difficult and thankless job, but toxic mods ruined Reddit and Lemmy will do the same if it’s not addressed.

Lemmy’s answer is to allow people to create their own instances. Don’t like the mods at World? Go make your own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers. But that’s not sufficient. It takes years to build up a community to have enough people for meaningful discussion to happen, and nearly all communities or instances fail. We absolutely need a way for mods to answer to the users.

Part 2: My solution

My solution is simple. Lemmy is built on the community. Everyone helps run it. Therefore mods are elected by the users who generate the highest upvoted content in a community.

Elections should happen on a schedule and, if a community is particularly upset with a mod, a vote of no confidence can be taken.

I understand that this will be a huge undertaking. But I truly believe that we need to fix this issue for Lemmy to thrive long term. Or else we’ll just end up with another Reddit.

@mattblaze @ai6yr yeah fixed it. And now there are Bell 407s doing commuter flights into the West 30th Street Heliport for $225 every 30 minutes during commuting hours

@ai6yr @mattblaze it was a bad one https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/16-may-1977/

@ai6yr @flyingsaceur I think you mean the Pan Am building crash, no? Pretty damning for hi-rise helipads!

@mike Gondor during the reign of Denethor?

Could also argue it is Rohan with Wormtongue. But maybe that’s Facebook?

"I didn't anticipate we'd have an outage like this," replies Secretary Duffy to a reporter asking why the FAA didn't have an emergency backup plan.

Majority Leader Dish - Evening Update 11/10

The Fence Sitters 🤦‍♂️

Yesterday Blumenthal was out saying there needs to be a 'conversation'. This was picked up and reported like he had questions about Schumer. He quickly 'clarified' he supported Schumer, giving the impression that his 'concerns' were addressed.

Tonight Warner may be pulling the same stunt. He's saying the new leader must represent the newly elected Senators. Would not be surprised if tomorrow he 'decides' Schumer is the man.

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my uncle is working at intelligence and they already have mega intelligence

Almost three hours and we haven't heard Jack about this from the supposed secretary of transportation or president.

🚨🚨🚨 Fucking UPDATE 🚨🚨🚨

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/sj-dennys-removes-plaque-nvidia-former-ceo/4175681/

@flyingsaceur @mattblaze LOL don't see the accident report on first glance, obscured by too many other NYC helicopter incidents

A while ago I posted an image of Jensen Huang signing the breasts of a fan at an event. It seems People magazine found the post and wants to use it in an article.

If you know who took the picture, let me know so I can connect them with People magazine.