The crux of the problem with Reddit is they drag their feet on these features. Mods have been asking for mod tools for decades. So they had to come up with these half-baked measures.

The beauty of open-source and federation: need a change just make it yourself!

This is pretty much the main reason I am excited for Lemmy and the fediverse. No monetization interests and gatekeeping to build the software the way the community needs it. This is why it’s so important that the user be the customer.