@kissane
This may be the Mastodon subcultural instance (ha!) of a more general phenomena of people being over-the-top intolerant on the internet. Interesting that you should say this just after I read this piece from yesterday by the amazing columnist for the Irish Times, Laura Kennedy. She was talking about the brigading of a couple girls doing a TikTok dance video.
"Online, things are different. We lose that rational sense of our own irrelevance and we can become thoughtless, credulous babies, quicker to judge and rage and dismiss.”