Another is shaping the norms of a community and what is acceptable.

This is incorrect. The community shapes itself. The community is lovely. We are not it’s shapers.

You’ve been here about as long as the instance has existed. In the almost three years we’ve been at this, have you ever seen us shaping discussion? Who the hell am I to dictate to everyone what the norm is, anyway? I’m just some guy on the Internet.

I was reluctant to remove a reported post on /c/worldnews the other day, despite it being in clear violation of the sidebar rules.

One neat thing about Lemmy is moderation is all transparent. The modlog is just down there on the bottom of every page. You’ll see that just about all the accounts I ban are for spam with a smattering of troll accounts. We are accountable to the users and not some secret group manipulating discussion out of sight.