We are working on new moderation features all the time, for example 1.0 will correctly federate instance bans which is quite complicated to get right. There will also be a plugin system which allows for much more flexible mod tools. Its just that our time is very limited for all the work that needs to be done on a project with over 50k active users.
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Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoIt may be a bit opiniated, but it’s nice to see a different approach from Lemmy devs who don’t see the need for any additional moderation tool.
I brought up mod mail during the AMA, it has been considered too complex to implement. A moderation panel with an overview of the mod queue would be nice too, but not a priority.
I’m not saying Piefed is perfect, but at least they prioritize that aspect.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This comment was not supposed to be a huge critique of Lemmy, more like a comparison.
Everybody is aware that you do what you can with the resources you have.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Fair enough, its just a bit strange that this particular critique comes up regularly.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
rglullis@communick.news 3 weeks ago
“moderation duties” and “regular participants” in a forum system have such different use cases, it makes no sense to try to make it work with the software itself.
It would be better/faster/easier to simply build a separate tool that can be useful for moderators, instead of trying to shoehorn it in the existing API. But I don’t really think that this is something that really bothers people enough, given that last time I asked if I could get 20 people interested to sponsor the development of the moderation tool, and to this day only one person showed up.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Piefed built in on their software without a separate tool
rglullis@communick.news 3 weeks ago
And by doing so, it makes it available only for moderators with accounts on piefed. What is the current TAM? 20 people?
A separate tool could connect to any server federating “Report” activities. What is the current TAM? Any moderator of a group, no matter if their account is on Lemmy/PieFed/PixelFed/Misskey/Mastodon…
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7
360 currently, so around 18 times that.
The appetite seems limited as you pointed out yourself in the comment above.