• Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live
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    1 year ago

    Even if you own an instance, the tools are non-existent.

    Some basics things that should be present but aren’t:

    • A user directory for search and deletion
    • Possibility to block communities for your whole instance
    • Basic statistics. Both on the community and instance level
    • Possibility to mute a user without banning them
    • Allow creating a community but only after admin approval (right now it’s free for all or admin only)
    • Easy access to server logs without having to dig directly inside the hosting server
    • Importing block/allow lists for federations using a file or url
    • Adding an administrator from the server admin UI

    The API is also lacking in a way that some of those things are not possible without deploying your own API talking directly with the postgress database.

    For example, if you wanted to see upvote/downvotes for each individual users, the data to calcultate it is in the database but the Lemmy API doesn’t provide that functionality.

    While Lemmy is great as a platform, the management side of is glueing everything together just enough to not let it implode.