Lemmy’s promise was to serve as a meaningful alternative to Reddit where powermodding like what you experienced wouldn’t happen,
Eh. Disagree. I saw Lemmy's promise as being an alternative to Reddit where central corruption wouldn't drag the community down. There is no Huffman to screw everything up. There are more distributed things.
Also, I think this situation explicitly counters the narrative where powermodding happens, because Stamets made a new community on a different server and is thriving.
Numlock. Let's me know if the hardware is locked up, powered off, or just slow to wake.