I wasn't even the mod involved in this until they decided to spew abuse at me in a completely unrelated community that I do mod. Ugh. Why are people like this, and why are so many of them on this platform?
Edit: If this is too close to the spirit of rule 5, I apologize and no hard feelings if you remove it. Trying to make a general point here and anonymized all the identifying bits.
Edit 2: Some of you recognized the user despite my attempts to anonymize things. While it's all there in the modlog, please don't doxx the user as I'm only highlighting the behavior and have already reported them via proper/official channels and shown them the door for the little communities I run.
It seems like it would be so exhausting with little to no benefit. Then again, some people just thrive on chaos and drama to the point where if there's not enough naturally existing, they create it. It's basically like sex or hardcore drugs for them. How do you get people to stop liking sex and drugs when bans are basically the equivalent of giving them a buzz and an orgasm all at once?
As for why so many are on the platform, I have a theory: They get banned from the other places. Eventually the barrier on ban evasions gets beyond their pay grade, so they fuck off elsewhere for a bit to sow chaos in new territory. Seems like a majority of the people who organically share their Fediverse origin story are along the lines of either "I left Reddit because Reddit did X" (ex: API ban) or "I got permabanned from Reddit because I said puppies are cute" -- and let me tell you, if you go and look at the puppies are cute user's Fediverse profile, more often than not, you'll quickly start to realize why another platform might've had motivation to shoo them off.
But but but, I really did get banned for saying puppies are cute *holds hat in hands and makes big eyes*
Hehe I add a label to any user who complains about being banned from Reddit...
How you guys adding labels? I'd like to do that, but I don't see any option to.
Some clients have the feature, and it's built-in on piefed I think.
Lol, I should have indicated I was speaking rhetorically but that's pretty much all true and matches what I've seen from the people with that particular flavor of origin story.
The third aspect is you can't actually ban anyone because they just spin up a new alt and start the same shit all over again.
While that's true, fediverse mods and admins are MUCH faster and more diligent about clamping down on this stuff.
Even though we can't all be around at all times, the ones that are instantly start freezing out the offender on the community and instance level.
It really doesn't take long for walls to come up around problem users.
And if the user escalates... well.
I'm particularly thankful for the way the fediverse seems to have collectively agreed that the second you wish death upon someone, you're just out. It's not up for discussion at that point. No slaps on the wrist, none of the admins want to host that stuff, so the moment a report reaches them, that user(name) is simply gone.
Could it be it's some kind of narcissism?
it's an effective way to get someone's attention