This really shouldn't be surprising. Commentators seem to still be missing a core tenet of Mastodon: decentralization. The different instances are not some hom

This really shouldn't be surprising. Commentators seem to still be missing a core tenet of Mastodon: decentralization. The different instances are not some homogenous community. Each instance forms its own community with its own style of moderation and its own rules. It's absurd to comment on "Mastodon's" moderation policies or style because Mastodon itself doesn't have any. Kinda like there's no single defining set of rules for every "club" in real world. So if you join an instance where moderators are willing to kick you out to entertain frivolous reports of misconduct, the failing is a deeper social one, and those are notoriously hard to fix technically. So sure, if Gargron comes up with a feature that mitigates trolls' ability to bully someone they don't like off the platform, that's wonderful, but I don't think that would necessarily be in the scope of the program. You can go start your no-wheatons.club -instance with blackjack and hookers and moderate it however you like, but to me that makes you a petty person and a bad mod who can't bear the responsibility of running a social media platform.