Big communities are the problem. The power of thought control is even more present in moderators as it is in server admins. The idea that server admin are Reddit's problem is a distraction due to that one especially abusive reddit admin but the same problems exists with moderators.

Anything other than a vast array of tiny instances agglomerated into a single view will do. The alternative is the elite captured internet overton bubbles that have been rotting our minds for over a decade now. There should be so many that as a whole they are ungovernable.

Moderation is the user's duty, the position of internet janitor must be abolished as it is always abused.

Once the repugnant moderators are finally finally gone, user based moderation tools will naturally follow, I imagine they will take the shape of a cross between Hollywood blacklists and uBlock origin.

Collectively managed, user selected, personnalised block and boost lists.

There will be many such lists to cater to different proclivities, they will be built on crowdsourcing in user collectives, AI powered reputation and ideology analysis per user history and simple rules like, minimum account creation date, server origin reputation, what cloud-words of communities they are posting to.

Block lists, boost lists and content discovery should all happen on the user's device and under their full control (and complete privacy).

Anyway, none of that happens with community agglomeration by default. And if things remain the way they are then Lemmy is stillborn.