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Unless I misunderstand (I'm merely a mod):
Users enforce as layer one. Through voting, reporting to mods. You can @ me in any thread in the communities I moderate, or send me a private message, for example.
Mods enforce as layer two, within their communities. Mod tools are not awesome (well, neither were reddits, so...). I regularly scan through the communities I moderate just looking things over. A good way to find problematic things is to sort by "New Comments".
Mods hosting communities on the server are subject to the rules that the admins set and enforce. So layer three -- if the mods are not doing their job, you go to the admins. Admins admonish the mods, or ultimately, remove their power and/or community.
FYI as admins, we actually see all reports that go to mods too. It's a little bit annoying, everything just goes into one big "reports" page. The mod tools definitely need work.
I've been thinking of trying my hand at some mod tools using what I know of the public APIs. But I suspect that the true solution is to learn rust so I can contribute directly to lemmy itself. Not enough hours in the day haha :)
Yeah I'm in the same boat. Would like to see some features but haven't done rust before, and not tons of free time!