C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friends.ravergram.club/@Bernard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Bernard</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.samfira.com/@gabriel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gabriel</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lauren</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jwz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jwz</span></a></span> </p><p>You're rather missing the point.</p><p>> If you don't want someone to see you or reply again, it is easy to block someone.</p><p>One person with a thousand followers shouldn't have to apologize to them constantly, saying "hey, this guy that keeps spewing racist abuse in replies to my posts, you can all just block him every time he changes socketpuppets, right?".</p><p>That poster should instead be able to stop the racist from broadcasting to their followers by piggybacking on their posts. Insisting otherwise is saying I have to let some racist nazi asshole into my living room to yell at my friends, because they can all just ignore him if they want to.</p><p>But you're right, it's easy to block or mute.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/FreezePeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreezePeach</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privilege</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/plonk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plonk</span></a></p>