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  • I’ve had multiple accounts banned over one or two posts that somebody didn’t like. Months of posting, comments, engagement and contributions can effectively disappear from a community because of a couple of moderation decisions.

    And the more you contribute, the worse the odds become. If you make hundreds or thousands of posts, eventually you’re going to post something that one moderator somewhere doesn’t like.

    You don’t need one moderation team to tolerate you. You need multiple independent moderators and admins, across multiple servers, to remain aligned indefinitely.

    This is why free speech (or at least free speech adjacent) instances are important. They don’t ban people nearly as frivolously. Build your communities on instances that are not hosted by bullies.

    Although, I will say, your premise is a bit flawed here. Having more moderation isn’t the problem, the problem is the type of moderators that are here on Lemmy. A lot of them are the same hall monitor types that were on Reddit, but even more strict!