How is a new Saidit person to assess how unsold-out the admins are or are not?

Well for starters, on reddit if you challenge an admin in any serious way, they will ban you just for speaking your mind. That won't really happen on saidit. Furthermore on reddit the mods will sometimes escalate to the admins, which is why I'm magnora7 instead of magnora, because they kept banning me site-wide just for speaking my mind.

On saidit, if there is a ban-heavy mod, the admins here (me and d3rr) would be more likely to get rid of the mod than support them. That's why having non-sold-out admins matters, big time. Because reddit is corrupted from the top down, which, if given enough time, results in a completely corrupted mod structure.

There is not going to be a silver bullet, but we're doing our best to right the wrongs of reddit and learn from what went wrong so we can protect this site and give it longevity.