for those who are new to mastodon, try to be patient as things evolve and problems get solved. it's really not very many people and with the recent spike in new accounts many of the devs have also had their hands full keeping the servers from falling over
also please consider tipping your instance! especially if you are using the site for commerical purposes - the cloud/VPS/cdn and other services needed to run an instance are not cheap ^^; (and you really don't want it run out of a basement)
Also imo there is a lot to figure out regarding what good moderation looks like and who's responsible for what
there are some (good) community norms already especially regarding anti-bigotry and anti-fascism but the independently operated nature of a federated network really complicates the matter, especially when it comes to making decisions which can determine the accessibility of large chunks fediverse content for their users (fediverse domain blocks)
for ex:
some instances have big moderation teams, small instances not so much.
some are fash instances and should clearly be blocked, others will block your server (and you) if you didn't (manually) block their specific list of fash instances.
tools such as RBLs would be a practical improvement (especially for small instances) but then surely an org needs to be created to administer such a thing?
how do local laws apply? switter and it's disbandment is humbling to me, to say the least.
lenore