In for-profit social media this will often be the case since they’re optimized for ‘engagement’ and ragebait is what works best for that…

but yeah, on lemmy we can do better, imho even adjusting how filter/sorting work can potentially have a huge impact

As others have said this is a much smaller place and I guess everyone had it’s own experience, but in the end users (including moderators) are humans, and you will find here the same issues you found on reddit except one:

• if you think the rules are wrong you can change instance, while for reddit, well you have to leave reddit as a whole.

on top of the other answer: you don’t even need to do that, that is what a thermostat is for…

yeah but monitoring and controlling are two different things: you can have a monotoring system and e-mail / alarms going off in case of issues, and attackers can’t do shit but looking at temperature.

But when would you ever need to change the temperature remotely is my question.