I’m trying to start a new community, but am immediately noticing a near-complete lack of moderation tools. No automated filters, no ability to ban users without directly navigating to the offending content, and no form of bulk operations at all. Am I missing something, or is it really that bad?


Not sure if sh.itjust.works offers Tesseract as a UI option, but you can direct ban/unban users and bulk-mod comments among other improvements to mod tooling.
If not, then I’d normally point you to the unlocked hosted instance (https://tesseract.dubvee.org/) but the VPS provider it uses is having issues right now, and my 3 hour old ticket has not yet been acknowledged.
Edit: Oh, they answered my ticket and I was able to start it back up, so the hosted instance should be working if you’d want to try it.
We do at https://tesh.itjust.works/
Ah, nice. I recommend that one to OP then since it’s 1st party and not an alpha version haha.