It’s these terrible single washer/dryer combos that are the cause of this pain. I can only assume their popularity is because they are small and cheap.
It may be the one thing America gets right - overwhelming people have larger washer / dryers with dedicated washing and drying sections. Takes up more space and I’m assuming requires hookups that aren’t common elsewhere, but man, they are SO much faster and far more effective. You can be done with all your laundry in a couple hours tops - and I’m talking like 1-2 weeks of laundry all at one time.
Meanwhile we have one of these, and I feel like we’re doing small loads of wash the entire week. And don’t even bother with the dryer setting on it - for 90% of items, you’re just spending 6 hours raising your electricity bill.
/rant
Yeah, every time there is a post on the topic, moderators say that the tools they have are insufficient.
It’d be great to have some community focus on that going forward, whether through direct Lemmy changes or creating better bot mod tools. I’m not in a position to contribute right now but maybe in a few months.
There is a subset of Lemmy that absolutely hates any idea of automod tools because it reminds them too much of issues they had with Reddit. But as Lemmy grows (and given it’s volunteer nature) it feels inescapable at some point.