We'll allow user-created communities eventually. As for how we'll handle moderators, it's not determined...
Reddit's mainly in the mess its in with regards to moderators because the company is on board with it. They could fix their situation overnight if they cared to.
I think Win's anti-politics stance will provide some protection against moderators with ulterior motives. If Reddit removed all politics + social issues from the feed today, a lot of their political operatives disguised as moderators would be out of a job.
I'll refer to our conversation on conspiracies.win about that community: https://communities.win/p/12i443Lwsp/x/c/4Dzdt5HZ6Qu
KiA2, now that I look at the front page, isn't necessarily as political (although we have a wide definition of politics to include social issues).
I like this community, and I like seeing it on my all feed, despite having the politics topic disabled. However it does violate the vision.
As I've said, we'll be pushing the home feed - users should customize their experience by subscribing to communities.
The user also linked to an out of context comment (it didn't include the comment that it was in response to, making it look like it was in response to the post --- it wasn't, it was in response to an entirely different user's comment)
Here's the more important conversation from that post: https://communities.win/c/Meta/p/12i443KZIx/x/c/4Dzdt0gYjZu
Ultimately - I don't think anyone should have an issue with us tagging communities that one could argue are political as politics. What could be debated is whether or not we should hide politics for default. It's always been our vision for politics to be opt-in, and that's unlikely to change without first trialing it on a bigger scale.
The goal has always been to not show politics on communities.win by default. Users who want to see politics can flick on toggle and see it all.
The first time that we included any communities with their own domains on the front page at all was 2 weeks ago, and we were clear that communities which feature politics would be tagged as politics.
Alternatively, they can subscribe to communities and use the home feed.
This is ridiculous fear-mongering, u/Graphenium is being intentionally misleading.
It's always been the policy for politics to be opt-in, when browsing via communities.win. In fact, until two weeks ago, none of the sites with their own domains were included on the front page at all.
Two weeks ago, we added the three "topics" of Politics, NSFW, and Other for the front page (which are toggles that users can enable or disable, and customize what they want to see on the front page). By default, users have the Politics topic disabled.
This was the first time any of the sites with standalone domains were featured on the front page, and we were clear that politically focused communities would be tagged as political communities.
https://communities.win/c/Changelogs/p/12hl5DX8m9/x/c/4DyNWLbyhHQ
This policy has not been at all swayed by any users, we have remained consistent on it.
Politics is opt-in.
There's no risk of that.