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They can...
But on a well maintained instance they get banned pretty fast. Like, less than an hour if they're vote botting.
That's why the problem is smaller instances that aren't well maintained, either because admins don't care or aren't able.
On those since the home instance doesn't act, the burden falls on the admins of every other instance to eventually ban each account.
Like,batelnback a second.
Think of it as admin who is putting their money and equipment up for this...
That is why I'm shocked they don't defed already, it's the only solution and the longer they wait the more trolls it attracts. Because they'll assume they'll get weeks/months out of it again.
You stamp trolls out quick or shit gets out of hand.
If you're smart, you can get around quick bans via timezones. And defedding small instances or not allowing single user instances is completely contrary to the idea of the fediverse.
What?
It's just not federating automatically day 1...
How can they defederate if they're not already federated?
They can't defedate anymore...
All I'm saying, is delayed initial federation, I hope this was simple enough.