This is frustrating to me. On Hexbear, mod applications are essentially a formality for keeping out trolls. Applications rarely get denied. The place is defacto run by whoever feels like they care enough and have enough time to put in the work. It’s a completely volunteer based position. And everything just runs for the majority of users. The most hierarchical part of the structure is imposed on us by the infrastructure of the internet because someone needs to pay for the server and the domain. Hexbear, the infamous tankie instance, is as close to a flat organization as you can get given the constraints. At the end of the day, some people just don’t like having any restrictions put on anything they do at all for any reason. And it sucks to see them turn that into a political ideology and make it everyone else’s problem that they can’t handle living in a community with already-established norms.
How can anyone look at Traaa’s Tactical Herd of mods and assume there’s some sort of strict hierarchical standard here? @kristina@hexbear.net is a marxist, but unless there’s something strange in the background Im unaware of, that comm is the most anarchist organized place on lemmy.
i can and will add any trans person thats not a chauvinistic piece of shit to the team at will. if a trans person has a complaint about the comm i immediately ask if they wanna help mod the comm and help fix the issue i hate how so many trans places online have been couped by libs and turned into little cliques, rapid expansion of the mod team under an anti-capitalist ruleset avoids this and helps increase participation in the comm. also having such a large group of socialist trans people organizing things is very beneficial for setting up mutual aid work and making real world differences in peoples lives. from what i can tell, we have the largest mod team of any front facing trans community on the internet, and we arent done growing.
also we have a rapid response team that executes cishets on sight but thats kinda just a fun thing we do on the side
This is frustrating to me. On Hexbear, mod applications are essentially a formality for keeping out trolls. Applications rarely get denied. The place is defacto run by whoever feels like they care enough and have enough time to put in the work. It’s a completely volunteer based position. And everything just runs for the majority of users. The most hierarchical part of the structure is imposed on us by the infrastructure of the internet because someone needs to pay for the server and the domain. Hexbear, the infamous tankie instance, is as close to a flat organization as you can get given the constraints. At the end of the day, some people just don’t like having any restrictions put on anything they do at all for any reason. And it sucks to see them turn that into a political ideology and make it everyone else’s problem that they can’t handle living in a community with already-established norms.
How can anyone look at Traaa’s Tactical Herd of mods and assume there’s some sort of strict hierarchical standard here? @kristina@hexbear.net is a marxist, but unless there’s something strange in the background Im unaware of, that comm is the most anarchist organized place on lemmy.
i can and will add any trans person thats not a chauvinistic piece of shit to the team at will. if a trans person has a complaint about the comm i immediately ask if they wanna help mod the comm and help fix the issue
i hate how so many trans places online have been couped by libs and turned into little cliques, rapid expansion of the mod team under an anti-capitalist ruleset avoids this and helps increase participation in the comm. also having such a large group of socialist trans people organizing things is very beneficial for setting up mutual aid work and making real world differences in peoples lives. from what i can tell, we have the largest mod team of any front facing trans community on the internet, and we arent done growing.
also we have a rapid response team that executes cishets on sight but thats kinda just a fun thing we do on the sideinaccurate! there would be a few
in the team somewhere 
plus we have the mod chat, where all mods can share their views about site policy and moderation, which is something i bet no other instance has
I can’t stand the constant pings but I appreciate everybody who does
Tbh, I can’t name a single mod nor admin from Hexbear despite being familiar with many users.
The admins seem to do their day-to-day posting on various alt accounts, while the mods usually don’t have their mod tag active.
What do you mean “the mods usually don’t have their mod tag active”? You can’t turn of the [M]
Oh, they can’t? Didn’t know that. Don’t know what I’m thinking of then.
Mods only have their tag if they mod the comm they are posting in, maybe that confused you
This is a feature on Reddit. It has not been implemented on Lemmy.