@TechConnectify It needs to be fixed at the structural level. Every major player here that I follow (normal people with decent follower count mind you, vs celebrities who likely have account managers) has had your exact issue. Mastodon becomes awful for them, while for us nobodies it's great and friendly. Working as designed.

No amount courtesy rules are going to fix a structural issue.

This will kill Mastodon long term if it isn't fixed. Driving off the medium sized accounts due to toxicity is still toxicity. Wish I had a fix, other than being liberal with the block function.

I naively thought this place would be great because the bad actors and bots could easily filtered out. Had not anticipated that each of us in the right circumstances can be a bad actor. Once again, humans aren't archetypes, behaving consistently and easily designed around.