Yes, but moderation teams on the fediverse are very small, and by nature of it, can make hundreds of account of different servers all trailing that would need to be individually sought out and banned.
It is a game of cat & 100 mice
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lautan@lemmy.ca 1 year agoThat’s a good point. But those people can be banned? I guess Reddit handles this by moderation and archiving old posts.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 year ago
gabe@literature.cafe 1 year ago
People will take the harassment off site especially if they are dedicated enough or use it to scrape for potential personal info to publicly release.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How is that different from Reddit? If trolls want to search and scrape and find information on people, they’re going to. You can’t put your information on the open Internet and not appreciate there’s always a danger of that.
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 1 year ago
There is more effort barrier if the trolls have to do all the scraping and sorting themselves than just popping a term that is a right wing lightning rod into search and getting a list of targets.