@ideasmithy@mastodon.social Depending on your client (browser or smartphone App), somewhere near that post you will find 3 dots. It's a menu that contains the 'Report' button that communicates the abuse to the admind of your Instance and eventually to the admins of the Instance of the abuser.
After reporting the post you can block the user.
Take a look of the name of the Instance of the abuser. If you will notice in the future that more that one abuser comes from the same Instance, you could decide to block for yourself the entire Instance and also propose to your Instance admins to block it for everyone. @citrustwee @Gargron
@ideasmithy@mastodon.social Mastodon gives lot of tools to block abusers but remember that it's impossible to block every single abuse. On Mastodon, simply, abusers dont last long 😎 @citrustwee @Gargron
@Ca_Gi @ideasmithy @citrustwee @Gargron I understand mastodon gives lots of tools to block abusers, but they would fall short in front of the paid army of abusers and trolls from India. They are often being paid to abuse and they would go to any length carry out their abuse. Mastodon would have to provide more tools to counter that.
@bisaat The real solution is to avoid gigantic Instances like mastodon.social (sorry Eugen 😅) in favour of small and medium Istances that are more specific about a community.
To make an example, my Instance is community driven (there are also meetings by person) and the active users decides the policies together with the admins. It's not rare that some users explains to the admins which Instance must be blocked 😄
Usually an abuser lasts 10 minutes by us because ALL the users collaborate to moderation with commonly discussed policies.
If there are strange massive registrations oyr admins interruots them.
It's also possible to make the registrations only by invitation.
@ideasmithy@mastodon.social @citrustwee @Gargron
There are also some useful acciunts like @isolategab that monitors and reports the acrivity of Gab users outside Gab or the few remaining Instances that didn't block it.
This isn't something that can be don automaticly by software, but is the activity of people that share some values and actively works to mantain this platform what it is. Don't rely on admins and don't expect to be served by others but work on it with the people that are here with you.
@bisaat @ideasmithy@mastodon.social @citrustwee @Gargron