How would the users message mods directly when the modlog just says “mod”? They could message each one directly, or mass spam all at once, but in general the tools are highly biased to protect mods rather than grant power to the content creators.

Message one mod who seems active or all the mods at once if you lack patience. Message an admin if the mods don't respond. It's not rocket science.

On Reddit - which I haven’t used since practically the Rexodus so am definitely not shilling for it here - after a post is removed, people can still continue to discuss things in it. So[...] With no recourse to do much of anything except complain.

This is false. Any comment that you made in the thread still exists in your profile. I'm not sure why you're lying about this.

It's very apparent that you are despairing and miserable. Have you considered that your negativity and that of people like you is more responsible for the failure of this platform to grow than any of the minor complaints you continuously harp on? You're either an absolute fool or a reddit shill to constantly be arguing that users on Lemmy have less rights than they do on reddit. That is complete and utter nonsense, users on reddit have ZERO rights. Z. E. R. O.

By all means, contribute on github or make some constructive suggestions for features, but to constantly harp on the lack of features for a platform with a small underpaid dev team is just extremely entitled and negative behavior, and helps absolutely no one. It creates a toxic climate on Lemmy for absolutely no reason.

Or go use all the great PieFed communities with their perfect moderators. Oh wait, they don't exist. The only way for me to understand your constant, pointless attacks and trivial complaints against the only viable alternative to reddit right now is to conclude that you are in fact a reddit shill. Otherwise it doesn't make any sense to me why you would be acting this way.

Lemmy isn't perfect. Constantly bitching about it while contributing nothing isn't making it any better.