While being in a server you cannot activate sculk shriekers by stepping on them. I was on an aternos server when finding this bug
Steps to Reproduce:
Go to a server
Step or jump on a sculk shrieker
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Is this a custom server, featured server, or vanilla BDS?
It could relate to the “server authoritative movement” setting, like BDS-4965.