If I seem flippant about this, by the way, it's not necessarily intentional.

But earlier this year I stepped down after many years of being the most active mod of a large-ish (~500k subscribers) subreddit, and so there is both:

* Weariness at people deploying the same sorts of oversimplified caricatures of mod and anti-mod sides that I've seen too often
* Slight amusement at how slow people are to realize that in a setup like Mastodon's, they can be far more responsible for their choices and actions than they ever were on the Bird Place and should probably act with that in mind.

Expanding on that last point a bit: here there is no nebulous central unaccountable "admins" or "trust and safety team". Here there is the team who admin and mod your instance, and there is you -- if you aren't part of that team -- able to directly see who they are and interact with and lobby them. This is a greater level of involvement and power for the average user than ever was on the other place, and comes with a corresponding greater level of responsibility to use wisely, because here the other users have much more realistic options to vote with their feet, or even to lobby against you.