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I see that more as the strength of the federation model. Yes, communities or entire instances could and will have political leanings that disagree with your own, and that difference could lead to censoring decisions that would be counter to your opinion.
But, nothing is stopping you or anyone from creating that same community with your political beliefs as the guiding methodology to compete. Then people who disagree with the original decisions can flock to the new one. Itβs a co-existence that I think is impossible with the centralized model.
I think we have learned enough from Reddit that echo chambers should be avoided. Fair and open discussion is possible without censorship, it just requires mods to not be children. There is the paid shills problem too. Since we are at the beginning of the Lemmy explosion and there is still much development to be done, it's worth talking about IMO.
If you manage the mods, you've only created a second layer of mods.
Hierarchies have been an ideological plague on humanity since Rome - if you want to build a nice thing with clean lines it certainly helps.
If you want to build a community or an ecosystem, anarchy works better. Not no rules, but no rulers
Flatter organizations are more efficient and far more productive - if we shout down shills and move on when a specific group gets too echoey, we'll be just fine
The strength of federation is (in part) the fact that names are only as special as the server they live on - I'm subbed to 4 gaming groups, so the moment one becomes toxic I'll drop it.
And moving forward, we already have people experimenting with ways to reconcile similar groups across servers - I think the key is to maximize content delivery and individual control over curation while avoiding locuses of power that can be abused