The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…
I think moderation and community will be much better on Lemmy. On Reddit you got some power tripping mods because they’d control the only sub with a clean name that got all the subscribers. There’s no such monopoly on Lemmy so it will be the best communities that win. Monopolies corrupt in all their forms.