Reporting and blocking is the only way and have always been, I don’t know what changed that people decided tolerating/engaging with them was being the better person.

I think it's the general focus on driving engagement and feeding the algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

And what's the excuse for things like the fediverse where there's no algorithm?
It isn't rare to find troll accounts (specially on news communities) and people keep engaging with them, I doubt people even attempt at reporting them since they last a long time

[–] Klear 1 points 6 minutes ago

Most people here are (or were) still engaged on other social networks. The engagement seeking mindset is just so widespread, that people bring it with them to the fediverse where it makes no sense.

At least that's my answer. Not saying it is the cause, but it sounds about right to me.