@joerebelloharley there's a p2p reddit thing called aether (https://getaether.net/) that i use which has a really interesting idea: democratic moderator elections. it's not unmoderated, so your community isn't swamped with garbage, but people that have participated within the last 6 months can vote to elect or impeach moderators, so you're not stuck with asshats forever because they happened to make the community.
unfortunately the elections are turned off right now because there's too few people and it'd be too easy to sway elections, but it's still cool to use despite that.
@resist1984 @joerebelloharley well, there's several things.
there's proof of work requirements, and you have to be active at least two weeks ago (i.e. you have to have wait a while before you can start voting). the current mods can also temporarily suspend elections for a week or two if there's a huge flood of spam votes, which will help prevent a momentary attack.
however, the main thing is that when you vote for a moderator, that moderator's actions always apply to your feed even if they're not a "default" moderator. if you impeach a moderator, then their actions never affect your feed even if they are a "default" moderator. this means that you can easily tune who moderates your feed and who doesn't, even if the masses don't agree with you. see: https://getaether.net/docs/faq/voting_and_elections/