Obviously, the internet has always been a toxic place, (the phrase “flame war” has been around for decades,) but it seems to have gotten so much worse over the last few years. I used to think decentralization of the internet would fix the worst of it, but Lemmy seems to have gotten worse alongside the rest of internet culture, proving me wrong. How do we fix/improve this culture of toxicity?
Given that instance admins do not run communities on their instances necessarily, and that they don’t control other instances - I don’t know you would expect to do this. Nor appreciate of the negatives of embedding such power into the threadiverse structure.