> moderators in pretty much all online spaces are effectively dictators

This. How do 1-10 or 20 or even 100 people get the "right" to decide what millions of people talk about and see?

What's keeping them from burying/boosting opinions about shit they have strong personal feelings about?

Steve Huffman/Spez of Reddit literally edited users' comments, and they autoban anyone saying "Fuck Spez"

If HN had existed in 1800 abolitionists would have been banned.

Society does not progress by people being nice and hugging eachother.