@aesthr@wandering.shop the more I think about it the more this seems like a direct function of mastodon’s absolutely trash community-level moderation capabilities. When you can’t rely on a centralized company to hire a bunch of people to play whack-a-mole with these losers, you need something that scales. The community has tried to do these things itself ofc (fediblock) but you need something more accessible in general at the individual level, and with sharper teeth. I’ll hand it to bsky for building a lot of these tools already while mastodon continues to drag its knuckles on the ground and operate a largely-unmoderated mega instance