I think something is being lost in communication here. Nothing is being destroyed.
I keep seeing this disconnect, I think it needs to be emphasized: Lemmy maintainers have been focusing (and continue to focus on) safety and moderation improvements. Anybody can verify this by looking through PRs/commits/RFCs on GitHub.
I think I understand where the disconnect is coming from - there have been a few responses in some of these threads by Lemmy devs where they tell people to be less rude and demanding, and to contribute if they desperately want some feature. Perhaps as an observer, this sounds like “we do not care about mod tools” or whatever, but reality is just different.
Perhaps it would be useful to do a more in-depth post about all the stuff Lemmy devs have worked on and are currently working on? I mean things like:
When purging a federated user, federate local community removals. (#4505)
Mods and admins can comment in locked posts (fixes #4116) (#4488)
When site banning a federated user, also remove their content from our local communities. (#4464)
Store password reset token after email successfully sent (fixes #3757) (#4489)
Correctly synchronize collection of community featured posts (fixes #3867) (#4475)
Ignore expired bans in CommentReportView::read, just like in CommentReportQuery::list (#4457)
Auto resolve reports on removing a comment or post. Fixes #4390 (#4402)
… the list goes on and on and on, these are just a very small and incomplete list of examples of already merged PRs which took me 30 seconds to quickly find on GitHub
I feel like there is this meme developing in Lemmy that maintainers are putting out a message of not caring about mod tools, which anybody with context will know is completely false, but I think most Lemmy users (and even many admins!) just don’t have this context.
The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. (dbzer0.com)