You are now banned from participating in Beehaw

"Only 4 of us moderating"

"Refuses to add mods meanwhile accepting 1000s of applications to join and building said community in a federated space where anyone outside their instance can participate"

Yep, definitely well planned out by those folks hahaha.

It doesn’t make sense for moderators to have full admin access. Lemmy allows multiple moderators to a work a community, and BeeHaw just needs to do that.

Honestly, I respect their decision but at the same time I wonder why they didn't create a standalone unfederated from the get go.

If you want to keep the community small and tightly nit it's just not compatible with the federation system. Now people got invested in some beehaw communities only to end up disconnected from them.

Still, it's not like there is a guide for this. We are all learning how to make the federation work. I hope we can keep it civil toward instances that choose to defederate.

We are all invested in the same thing: Making Lemmy successful.

Yet. Sync for Lemmy should be coming out in 4~ weeks and Memmy is heavily inspired by Apollo and is being developed fast.

Though I wouldn't expect mod tools in their first release.

Even if you own an instance, the tools are non-existent.

Some basics things that should be present but aren't:

• A user directory for search and deletion
• Possibility to block communities for your whole instance
• Basic statistics. Both on the community and instance level
• Possibility to mute a user without banning them
• Allow creating a community but only after admin approval (right now it's free for all or admin only)
• Easy access to server logs without having to dig directly inside the hosting server
• Importing block/allow lists for federations using a file or url
• Adding an administrator from the server admin UI

The API is also lacking in a way that some of those things are not possible without deploying your own API talking directly with the postgress database.

For example, if you wanted to see upvote/downvotes for each individual users, the data to calcultate it is in the database but the Lemmy API doesn't provide that functionality.

While Lemmy is great as a platform, the management side of is glueing everything together just enough to not let it implode.

My team and I are planning to start working on an AutoMod bot in the near future. It's going to be built with our custom instance in mind, but the code will he open source for everyone to use.

Fricking flairs, they're very important in the communities that I'm moderating. With an ability to set multiple flairs at once because on reddit you can set only one which sucks because some posts can fit criteria to get 2 or more flairs.

Just contacting admins of your instance would do, they have the ability to remove and appoint new mods.

Not sure if there's any lore behind it but I've also seen this. The beehaw admins seem to have an habit of making problems go away by pressing the magic button.

Nobody de-federated. People saw that there was a the_Donald community on sh.itjust.works + a lot of people from said server defending it ("just ignore it bro"). That triggered probably bad memories ala spez defending t_D because of "VaLuABlE DiSCuSsIoN", while they brigaded and harrased countless people during their time on Reddit. Some people got a little bit carried away and demanded de-federation and a couple of trolls throw gazoline in the fire.

Random auto scrolling

Do you mean the new post that used to popped to the top of the page and it made scroll issues? Because I think it was fixed at v0.18

I had a conversation with the reviewer, and my impression was that headway could be made without too much difficulty.

If anyone’s keen, and willing to work in rust or Typescript, there’s probably work you could be doing right now to make better moderation tools.

There is one called Mlem. You can find it and other apps on the website: https://join-lemmy.org/apps

don't worry, they're coming. a bunch of bigger third party app Devs have said they will make an app for Lemmy, and that will include iOS apps as well I'm sure. it's just a matter of time.

Except instead of banning people for no reason you ban entire servers for no reason