But most of the moderation is done by community moderators, not admin. So it isn’t necessarily the face of the instance but the face of each individual community.
However, if the moderator doesn’t assign their username to the moderation action, then you can’t really tell who’s done it. It just says “mod”, but it could be a community moderator, or it could be an admin. I can understand a mod not wanting to publish their username with the action, but it should still at least tell you what capacity they were acting under. Generally, I think instance admin are more sensible (with the exception of hexbear).
Also, when you load the instance modlog you’ll end up seeing moderation from every other instance, and it doesn’t even tell you which community it refers to most of the time.
Edit: Here’s another quirk: it’s possible for someone on one instance to moderate in a completely different instance. I actually have had some moderation on lemmy.ml, but it was a comment in lemmygrad. The comment is still visible to me and I don’t see it in the modlog on lemm.ee (my instance) or lemmygrad.ml, but on lemmy.ml the comment has been removed and it shows up in their modlog.
The open modlog is amazing, however the only trouble is it’s often impossible to tell who is doing the moderation. It could be the community mods, it could be the admin. I can understand not wanting to show the specific user that performed moderation, but I think it should at least tell you what capacity the moderator was working under.
Admin have ultimate control over their instance. However, they should try to set reasonable expectations for users, as otherwise users will leave. Admin tend to be sensible, with the prime exception being hexbear.
Community mods have free reign over the community, but must act within the rules of the instance. Thus, if the rules of the instance allow it, then a community mod may have every right to ban you for any reason they like - even if you broke no community rules. The idea being: if users don’t like the moderation they can easily set up their own, competing community (just like how reddit was supposed to work, eg how r/anime_titties was created for news because r/worldnews moderation was crap).
I’m sure there are dodgy mods on lemmy.ml, but I’m not aware of the admin performing bad moderation.
If you want to see the face of a instance, look in the modlog.
But most of the moderation is done by community moderators, not admin. So it isn’t necessarily the face of the instance but the face of each individual community.
However, if the moderator doesn’t assign their username to the moderation action, then you can’t really tell who’s done it. It just says “mod”, but it could be a community moderator, or it could be an admin. I can understand a mod not wanting to publish their username with the action, but it should still at least tell you what capacity they were acting under. Generally, I think instance admin are more sensible (with the exception of hexbear).
Also, when you load the instance modlog you’ll end up seeing moderation from every other instance, and it doesn’t even tell you which community it refers to most of the time.
Edit: Here’s another quirk: it’s possible for someone on one instance to moderate in a completely different instance. I actually have had some moderation on lemmy.ml, but it was a comment in lemmygrad. The comment is still visible to me and I don’t see it in the modlog on lemm.ee (my instance) or lemmygrad.ml, but on lemmy.ml the comment has been removed and it shows up in their modlog.
The open modlog is amazing, however the only trouble is it’s often impossible to tell who is doing the moderation. It could be the community mods, it could be the admin. I can understand not wanting to show the specific user that performed moderation, but I think it should at least tell you what capacity the moderator was working under.
Admin have ultimate control over their instance. However, they should try to set reasonable expectations for users, as otherwise users will leave. Admin tend to be sensible, with the prime exception being hexbear.
Community mods have free reign over the community, but must act within the rules of the instance. Thus, if the rules of the instance allow it, then a community mod may have every right to ban you for any reason they like - even if you broke no community rules. The idea being: if users don’t like the moderation they can easily set up their own, competing community (just like how reddit was supposed to work, eg how r/anime_titties was created for news because r/worldnews moderation was crap).
I’m sure there are dodgy mods on lemmy.ml, but I’m not aware of the admin performing bad moderation.