This is an absolutely true story okay:

One of my friends DM'd me in TEARS a couple months ago, because she'd been blocked by a single user instance.

Like, some guy came into her mentions, and they got into an argument about whatever she was posting about and he made a big announcement of blocking her cause she's a bad person.

So now she's DMing me to say she's been banned and has no idea what to do - it was a single user instance that blocked her.

The disconnect is real.

(PS: this story DID have a happy ending. My friend even felt a little silly once I explained it was "just some guy." But that's the thing right? Nothing about that is clear out here - until very recently, I treated EVERYONE out here as "just some guy" and that didn't work out for ME all that well either - it's just that I'm harder than a coffin nail, so even if you convinced me EVERYONE out here hated me, I wouldn't leave cause "fuck him, why should I be the one who has to change my name?")