@cwebber I’ve watched these dynamics play out on the Fediverse, on Twitter, on BlueSky, and in real life. They’re facts of human nature, and impossible for technical design to erradicate.
Of course this doesn’t mean that an OCap, non blocklist, potentially fully distributed model wouldn’t produce less of this. I just think blocklists and the human urge to exclude “bad actors” (however flawed that process may be) is universal and eternal.