Every time I go to the piefed frontpage I’m blown away by how much more polished it is. It has all the bells and whistles that lemmy is sometimes missing.

Whats the catch? Why aren’t we recommending everyone goes to piefed instead of lemmy?

App support is one thing I can think of.

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    23 hours 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.

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      23 hours ago

      It would be better/faster/easier to simply build a separate tool that can be useful for moderators,

      Piefed built it in their software without a separate tool

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        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…