I could be totally wrong but my take on it is that they’re just wanting the community to handle it so they can work on other parts of lemmy. They at least don’t seem like they’re against better mod tools.

day-to-day mod and admin actions on this instance are pretty low. Bigger instances like LW probably would have more reason to complain :D

IMO I don’t think it is something the lemmy devs are focused on, but there is a growing community creating helpful tools around moderation/federation/maintenance. There were some core features added like mods being able to see downvotes to detect mass downvoting, and open issues for things like an invite system.

LemmyAutomod is an example of a community effort. I saw some other similar bots posted too.

It does look like the issue in the previous thread is what caused a few instances to defederate from us. The spam issue was solved, so hopefully we’ll be able to get refederated again to those instances.

The signup application process is now also enabled for new users.

Thanks for the report. This user and several others were banned last night. I’m looking for others as well that may not have been quite as bad.

Ah I did not realize that was a limitation either :(

I put a link to this thread in the sidebar for now. Let me know if you want me to copy something else into it instead

Thanks @activistPnk@slrpnk.net - !travel@eviltoast.org is not active at all, but I have nothing against it!

Since you’re already a moderator on !solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net , I also gave you mod access here. No pressure to do anything with it, but you’re able to if wanted.