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And this post here also summarizes the big problems we've seen with FediBlock and The Bad Space.
We have people posting marginalized group instances on FediBlock, misrepresenting or exaggerating or even fabricating issues with those instances, and then suddenly finding that like 10% of the network has blocked them because no one is vetting these posts. I recently even appeared on there for attempting to vet some of those posts.
Meanwhile, every issue that The Bad Space has has basically turned into a timeline nightmare for its creators. Yeah, TBS has a problem with the number of instances it calls out for "racism" that no one else can find, and we could always make the argument that they could respond differently, but some people go absolutely insane about the people running it.
With a whitelist it would be even worse, because simply not including a server is doing a very real harm to its connections, and someone is going to answer for that.