If there would “hypothetically” be an instance owner(like what even is that, just a guy or group having servers somewhere?) that censores in bad faith, could it do that to the communities on there too? Could they just take out certain communities or delete content on it, affect the responsive moderators, etc?

Like how do I know I’m not on a community dependent on u/spez filtering out everything about insurance for his corpo bros?

I hope my questins make sense

  • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    17 days ago

    I wish instances would focus more on being transparent about their hosting.

    What would like more than this kind of transparency? https://lemmy.zip/post/35411310

    For example I could think of global admin rights or instance control or data control over global metrics to use them in shady ways for example politically

    There are no global admins.

    Lemmy.ml admins are known for ban-site bans over political stances: https://feddit.nl/post/16246531

    Their decisions are limited to their instance and have no impact on the other instances and communities.

    • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
      1·
      16 days ago

      yea home is nice, would be cool if that is a norm every instance does! like patch notes in games

      so the developers cannot do anything with another instance? like they cant access their data or backend and mess with these or like switch off stuff, right?

      • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        16 days ago

        yea home is nice, would be cool if that is a norm every instance does! like patch notes in games

        Every instance is free to manage things differently, users are also free to move to instances with higher transparency and communication

        like they cant access their data or backend and mess with these or like switch off stuff, right?

        Correct. If it was not thee case, I can tell you most of us wouldn’t be here