@dansup I certainly agree that developers like you have a big role to play in helping the fediverse accelerate privacy and safety features.
With Pixelfed's momentum you have some great opportunities to show leadership here by prioritizing safety.
as a coder, lead by example. Implemement moderation roles and a dashboard. Prioritize fixing open safety- and moderation-related bugs.
as somebody who's started an initiative that's getting funding, you can be a role model by diverting a lot of it to moderators on pixelfed.social and other instances you run, moderators in the community, and safety-focused developers in the Pixelfed and the broader fediverse communities.
Those are only a couple of ideas, there are other ways as well.