If I were to venture a guess, it would be that if you receive excess reports for a particular user on your instance causing issues on other instances you can boot said user for being a nuisance stopping the problem at the source rather than just the impacted instances cleaning up the reported content with no way to stop the reoccurring problem short of blocking your entire instance.
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think you’re right, but if an instance is a “bad place,” they would know when to start up a new alt by being triggered by a bunch of places. They could also know when to get upvotes. Oh god, the downvoter crowd could have their own instance.
eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 11 months ago
If the bad actors have their own instance anyone with sense will defederate them.
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh yeah, you’re right, I forgot about the defederating. Glad that’s a thing.