Obligatory ‘your mileage may vary,’ but lemmy seems to be no better in any regards than reddit or similar. The top 20 posts in any community are from power users and/or mods of such community. They enforce rules on a biased, per-basis quota rather than rules as written.
Full discourse: just got a 3-day ban from news@lemmy.world because I was being ‘uncivil,’ despite being the first attacked. Another user mentioned the lack of punctuation from the OP, and I followed through with a ‘failed grammar’ joke.
Rule one of /c/news@lemmy.world is ‘be civil; if you see bait, report and move along’ (paraphrased). I wasn’t even baiting and these people threw their expired chum at me.
Literally everything after that was criticism, judgement, and personal interpretations. Everything from ‘don’t judge the illiterate,’ to, ‘why would anyone bother with your bs?’ (see how speshul that one is?) When I shot back, the smooth brains doubled down.
Ultimately lemmy as a whole is becoming more like reddit every day, and I’m just rocking on the fence deciding if it’s worth keeping.
I don’t even like .ml but at least they’re consistent.
I think you’re a bit turned around. Lemmy.world isn’t all of Lemmy. That’s the entire point. If a specific instance is not moderating to your liking, you can post to other federated instances. Whichever instance has a community that the most users gravitate to will become the hub for that topic. This prevents admins and powermods from controlling the entire network, which is unlike reddit.
As for mods posting a lot in communities, from my experience that’s because some communities have low user engagement and the mods are invested in communities so are posting more.
Ok?