Hey, I'm also modding for the news community, I would also love to help you with this community.
Maybe you should make a matrix chat for the mods to make sure we all follow the same standard for moderating. Especially for the news community, where a lot of "fights" break out between people with different opinions.
Me too, but I doubt it. I'm a mod for u/news, and I'm already seeing a lot of useless discussions where two people get more and more angry with each other without changing anyone's opinion.
Admin abuse: yea, but unlike reddit you can just move to another instance.
Reposting: you don’t have to subscribe to all communities. And you can block communities if you don’t want to see them in your local or all tab.
Privacy: depends on which instance you choose. Do your research.
Server: I am not sure about this, but I think the server strain is placed on the subs who generate the most content / have the most users. More users means more potential for donations, which means the devs can buy better servers.
Hey! Could you maybe edit the title, to be more descriptive of what you are asking? Something like: "could someone explain lemmy to me in simple terms?".
Could you share some citations for that lol.