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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[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

20 people?

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

360 currently, so around 18 times that.

A separate tool could connect to any server federating “Report” activities.

The appetite seems limited as you pointed out yourself in the comment above.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

360 currently

Please, read things in context. I'm talking about moderators.

Are all the 360 PieFed users also community moderators?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can add a piefed account as a mod to a community I mod right now.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 day ago

How many people like you are using PieFed right now?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago

Those features also impact all Piefed users.