Yeah I will have to say for as great as lemmy is, their handling of moderation is completely ass backwards. I once got cut off half way in a conversation because the person I was taking to got mod abused half way. Had to continue in DM.
Also when people post blatant disinformation/hate speech and the first response is an extremely good call-out: well now it’s gone.
There needs to be moderator actions that aren’t just simply scorching the earth. Warnings (user was warned/banned for this comment or this comment was made by a user who is now banned for [reason]), auto-hiding, community notes (like how twitter handles disinformation) and redacting (in the case of slurs/doxing) can be used to improve the quality of the website without cutting out entire threads completely.
Modlog also needs to be way less opaque. It’s just flooded with useless ‘Rule 1’ ‘Rule 2’ which means literally nothing since you don’t know what community it’s for, or hell, what instance. Ways of filtering out communities/instances as well plus a universal modlog which compiles the modlogs of the various instances so that it isn’t a mystery why your posts all of a sudden stop getting attention on a certain instance.