The owner of the instance can re-assign moderators.
Request the admin make you a moderator
Does that mean the admins have the power to remove you as a moderator?
Who holds them accountable?
Absolutely, its their hardware or money running the server instance. Accountability comes in the fact that you can nuke your community and move instances whenever you want to
Presumably instances whose admins behave unpopularly will see their users move to other instances. You sort of choose your own admins, that way.
The community. If an instance admin goes rogue, the community can be restarted at another instance or a new instance.
Fediverse
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Rules
- Posts must be on topic.
- Be respectful of others.
- Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
- Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy