Looking forward to the comments saying this true but good, actually.
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It's a matter of numbers and community.
If you want to be a jerk, people will ignore you. If there are ten other people in the room, you can only be a jerk ten times before everyone in the room starts to ignore you.
That's the Fediverse, it's a small community and word gets around fast with people who see and notice a bad character and start blocking them, their posts, their comments and their activity.
That's the thing about numbers .... if you are a small group, word gets around quickly who the jerk is ... if you are a big community, there are more systems in place to deal with jerks
So the only way for jerks to survive ... is to build a community of jerks for themselves ... and surprisingly enough, those communities don't last very long.
Yeah, indeed but some people are frustrating and objectionable in behaviour that doesn't immediately lead to bans. Sort of malicious compliance, knowing where the line is. "I'm not touching you" behaviour. They do slowly get banned, but they can run rampant on communities for a time until they do.
That's what blocklists are for. If you encounter a jackass account just block them. That way it doesn't matter if they get banned or not.