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Like I said, I see your side and I don't agree with it, fundamentally. I only gave one hypothetical, btw, the rest was on the unreliability of votes as a metric. And I just don't see the point on an open forum where anyone can respond at any time. Plus, there are reasons and recourse for mod actions, but no one has to justify a downvote.
Lemmy isn't my tribe and Piefed isn't my enemy, I'll probably end up using both, or whatever ends up working better for me. The point of decentralization is having places like .today, .blahaj, .ml and .hexbear all doing governance however the hell they want, and being able to freely choose between them. An authoritarian platform would be obligatory, not federated with the competition, non-transparent, and centralize power to one or a few individuals. I don't even think it's possible for .ml to be authoritarian because participation is a choice.
However, I can see which mods performed what action and from what community, granted I use the web apps with more features. But I agree, not getting a notification should for sure be fixed and mod mail for big communities would be cool, and I wish there was a way to see deleted content, but the mod actions definitely aren't a secret and anyone can send them a message about it.
Not if the modlog merely says "mod". Note that the ability to hide the username of the mod is not universally utilized - it is a community setting that can be turned on or off as the mod sees fit. When on though, someone would have to DM every single mod in the entire list in order to get an explanation for a ban that was surprising to them. So yes definitely a highly anticipated feature to offer a modmail.
Of course participation in any Fediverse communications is all optional. That said, many people complain in r/RedditAlternatives that Lemmy is too authoritarian for their liking, so addressing their concerns may help enhance the Threadiverse by welcoming a wider variety of people. Which is now being done by PieFed more than Lemmy. I am not trying (anymore) to convince you to make an account on a PieFed instance, just relating that fact as part of the wider conversation about matters happening in relation to the Fediverse, because I think it is good to know about and an interesting subject!:-)
Notifications for mod actions are already implemented for Lemmy 1.0. Mod mail would take a lot of work to implement, and we have plenty of other things to work on. Being able to view your own removed posts makes sense, will note that down.