despite it all i still have hopes for fedi administrative tooling.

IFTAS is not the only way to contribute to the discussion. There's the ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce (part of W3) https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety there's contributing directly to software looking to expand their tooling

https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey/-/issues/767
https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey/-/issues/664
https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey/-/issues/663
https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey/-/issues/662

i encourage people to still continue engaging in fedi administrative tooling. never put your eggs in one basket anyway.

Can't program in Typescript/Javascript?

https://iceshrimp.net/

https://issues.iceshrimp.dev/issue/ISH-653
https://issues.iceshrimp.dev/issue/ISH-640

(iceshrimp.NET, a beta C# fedi instance software)

Hell, want to work on something not belonging to the "*key family"?

https://github.com/Letterbook/Letterbook
https://github.com/Letterbook/Letterbook/issues/371
https://github.com/Letterbook/Letterbook/issues/141

Don't like C#?

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/3593
https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/3545
https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/3539

Don't like Go?

https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/
https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/issues/863
https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/issues/774

There is SO much out there that isn't just mastodon, or things like IFTAS. So many projects you can work on that would help improve the fediverse. Moderation tooling isn't a competition, and when software implements it everyone can benefit.