And thus, Reddit holds all the power. If the mods are so attached to their community, that Reddit can dictate whatever terms they want, then the mods have no leverage.

On the one hand I can understand it...but also that is such a feeble stance.

Mods that feel that strongly about protecting their community would do so much better in a federated context.

Federation works for Twitter, it doesn't work for Reddit. If my Mastodon instance federates with yours, I can see your posts, you can see mine, we're fully merged. If my lemmy instance federates with yours, we can browse each other's communities, but those communities themselves don't merge. The userbase merges but the communities do not, and the community is the base unit that gives Reddit value. Federated Reddits will never take off for this reason. You either have a bunch of fractured communities that are all worse because there is no network effect, or you have one instance (or one community) absorb all the traffic and become its own centralized fiefdom.

That's actually bottom of the barrel reasoning in my book, to cave to the admins because Reddit admins would punish you.

It's psychologically unhealthy, any therapist would tell you that.

/r/science was already thrash too so biased it hurts, might as well be /r/politics2. Honestly nothing value would be lost with that sub.

Current front page:

>A new study has found that both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism are associated with a greater tendency to believe in conspiracy theories

>Being female, liberal, intellectually humble, and having weak party identification are all positively associated with writing more persuasive political arguments

>When house prices increase, homeowners are likely to strengthen their belief in meritocracy