There's a couple things I've noticed while using Lemmy and Mastodon:

Admins and moderators have a sort of distributed power as it's somewhat no longer consolidated to a single instance like Reddit anymore,

• and so there's more incentive to making good decisions for not only for oneself but for the collective (reason being long-term instance sustainability)
  • therefore this system is likely to incentivize admins and moderators to make better long-term decisions rather than chasing short-term goals.
  • anytime I see systems that encourages people to make better long term decisions that makes me happy :D

additionally the fediverse gives more leeway to user choice as you're no longer locked down to an instance

• (this of course changes based on the instance federation/defederation situation which stems from the instance admin's/admins' past and current actions.)
• this allows users to participate on multiple communities using one account instead of having to create multiple accs

the emergent complexity of the systems that builds the fediverse seems like it's currently on a good path for building sustainable homely communities, so I'm cautiously optimistic

so far there's areas I can see that could use some QOL improvement for online discussions boards/forums and Lemmy's current systems seems like a good point to branch out from