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Right?! I almost gave up 6 months in but getting over my hesitation to just block and move on was a game changer.
The people who really suck tend to be really sad the more you learn. Like dude, I’d pity you if others didn’t have to put up with your crap. Now I’m just angry and feel bad
That'd catch some, yeah, but based on what I've read on join-lemmy.org and some of the Github issues, I just don't see the Lemmy devs doing anything remotely close to that.
Not to mention, it's incredibly easy to spin up sock puppet accounts on several instances (like you described your boss doing...omg that's sad lol).
The concern trolls also usually stay within the community rules, so it's often difficult to do anything about them even if you successfully identify one.
See that's what you implement one time paid account creation for.
Minecraft doesn't stop you from making a bunch of alts to grief with, it just makes you pay up so that scaling up VERY quickly starts to hurt more than the trolling is worth.
Also, differentiating profiles and accounts. IE an account can have their personal profile that's linked to their friends and family, but then they can also have a public profile that they send any public statements and communications through, and they can also have a profile that's dedicated to fielding and delivering all their furry R34 commissions.
So people will THINK they're able to go wild and outsmart any blocking rules by switching to an alt profile only to realize that the ACCOUNT is what gets blocked, not the Profile, and that they are gonna have to cough up if they really want to go that nuts just to troll someone. One two punch of sucking the wind right out of their sails before handing them an oar to row if they want to move that ship so damn bad.
See that's the thing, if your real world identity becomes linked to the account, then creating ban evasion accounts means literally having to get a new identity. Again, we see more layers of effort that have to be crossed for the intention of being able to harass someone who blocked you.
The point isn't to be perfect, it's to make breaching so annoyingly time and resource consuming that all but state actors who are REALLY determined will bounce off and just go do something else with their time.
Those alt accounts are known as sock puppets.