We agree and have a lot of thoughts on moderation tooling and the things that we do to try and make it work regardless. As has been pointed out by others, essentially all Fedi instances (including ours) are volunteer driven and almost all software being developed in the Fedi space is likely also free.
In the past we've focused on "how you can help us" information:
https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2023/04/05/a-minute-from-the-moderators/
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