@purism you would be wise to merge !4 in your GitLab instance

https://source.puri.sm/liberty/smilodon/merge_requests/4

Not doing so would be a fools errand on the ActivityPub network.

Block lists do NOT work.

Ever self-hosted an e-mail server and had a bad actor submit your domain to a block list? How hard was it to be removed from said list once you were part of it? Were all of the other servers using that list ever updated to remove your entry once it was discovered and the problem rectified?

Think about that scenario long and hard, especially in the context of NON CORPORATE admins and actors who don't have the time, capacity or desire to fight with a block list removal because they were targeted by a bad actor.