iAmTheTot

It’s not overblown. It’s sending a message to the admins of that instance.

Blocking the community itself is the smallest Band-Aid in the world. The kinds of users who join that instance for that community aren’t going to be quarantined to just that community.

Generally speaking I think people want to interact with other human beings, not bots.

Then there’s the questionable morality of it. Companies can profit off bots scraping our info.