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Right. My question is closer to this: why do we need exclusive moderators? If posts & comments are our dataset, what is the purpose of only allowing one, singular curated view into that dataset?

There are removals for ToS/legal reasons, which can be fairly universally applied. I see that as traditional moderation.

However, there are also community-specific removal paradigms based on what a moderator team sees as the vision for a space. This is much more "curation" than it is moderation.

So, assuming we will always need category 1 moderation, why do we marry only one set of category 2 moderation (curation) to a dataset of user-submitted posts and comments? What's the harm in allowing me a moderated but uncurated feed, and allowing me to apply my own filters? This would allow topic-specific items to congregate in one place with different curation paradigms present based on what users want. This solves many of the problems I see in the federated-reddit world.