I agree, I believe the fediverse as it exists just create many “mini-reddits” the problem still exists and the incentives to concentrate attention into “big instances” and “big communities” will almost certainly recreate the same problem that reddit does. Except with a fragmented audience, the misdeeds and abuses of admins will be harder to detect and more confusing to escape.

So, I agree, without serious steps, taken urgently to disempower instance owners and their lieutenant moderators I believe Lemmy and the Fediverse are already doomed. An aristocratic class of server owners will have free reign to gaslight the small remnant of reddit refugees into believe whatever their interests desires.

And based on your username, I suspect that you are one of these owners, that this is the real reason of your objection to further disempowerment of instance owners and that what I see as a nightmare is in fact your dream.