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
No worries!
I’m similarly unschooled, and had to rely on my cousin to verify the same basic concerns back when I switched to lemmy all the way (I had had an account early on, but never did anything but lurk on it).