I agree with your assessments and lemmy definitely has a major issue with mods abusing their power "because they can."
The answer is to create new instances that don't allow abuses of power. We shouldn't be afraid of being 'defederated' from the abusive instances. Eventually, they will have their own echo chamber while the rest of us can converse without fear of censorship.
The most important reason is to combat censorship.
Yeah, no.
Those things are death traps and there's a reason why they're mostly prevalent in nations where people literally can't afford anything safer.
There are already instances that aren't eager to defederate to suit a few complainers.
They just need users.
Why only 96 hours?
I still see the same brands, but among those brands there are fewer options.
"They're a business and they need to make money." - useful idiots