@dickturpin Then there needs to be other ways of recourse. Again the simplest and clearest being to appeal to the admin of the instance of the abuser, and get him to shut that shit down, or at least to talk to the abuser and get them to understand the abusive nature of their conduct.

If talk fails, and the remote admin is unable or unwilling to shut it down, then an instance-wide block might be motivated, for the local instance, and possibly for others.

In particular, if abuse and harassment occurs in one instance, then the risk is obviously higher that it'll happen again, wouldn't you agree? In particular, if the admin is unwilling to step in and say "hey, that's wrong, could you not?", and perhaps rather piles on or encourages the harassment, then the social consequences of abuse _on that instance_ would lead to _increased_ abuse, on the whole, it seems to me.