seriously, this only helps harassers, no one else, and it is entirely at the expense of those who are getting harassed.
This sort of thing is why I keep arguing that mastodon shouldn't get credit for being 'anti-harassment', the lead dev is actively working against it.
And yes, it is specifically @Gargron, the pull request for this was by him.
It is like watching a race to the bottom in terms of being terrible about anti-harassment features.
It looks like this has been resolved. A pull request that reverts the changes got merged.
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/10442/commits