Gregory's Server@stux agree. Instance level blocks should be used only in extreme cases such as for legal reasons or for safety of the greater fediverse community. I hated the thought of blocking an instance as an individual user but doing so as admin one would think would be a more difficult decision.
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 @ocdtrekkie @stux true. There are issues like doxxing a common tactic used to intimidate or target people which may or may not be legal. What would be best if the instance has no rules against it and wouldn't change them? Should that be on the individual users or would this be FediBlock scenario?  @Sh4d0w_H34rt @stux I mean, I would go by what you see in practice, not the defined rules. The server admin can block individual users from interacting with their server too, if that's enough to solve the issue. I feel like instance blocking is a statement that everyone on that server is awful. There are servers where that's the case, but many where the communities are more mixed. I think instance blocking should always be considered case-by-case. @ocdtrekkie @stux a little while ago a user I was following doxxed someone so I reported the post and blocked the user then not long after another user of the same instance did so again. When I reached out to the instance admin they said that doxxing would not be restricted but I could request its removal. I blocked the instance the next day. @Sh4d0w_H34rt @stux How big was the instance? Is what you were dealing with a single problematic person evading your block, or an overarching issue with the community of the server? I mean, almost anyone can evade any block on the fediverse by signing up on any number of servers. I'm not really trying to judge your call, I don't know the details, but it's one of those things that I think should just be applied thoughtfully. @ocdtrekkie its a fairly large instance with very lax rules and for legal reasons I don't want to get caught up in something started from there, will miss a few accounts but it was worth it. @Sh4d0w_H34rt @stux at that point, you're blocking the instance not only for yourself, but you're making that decision for all of your users as well.
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@Sh4d0w_H34rt @stux I strongly agree with Stux here, but instance blocking is particularly valuable for :obvious cases:. There are a lot of servers that are both run by and full of extremely awful people. Fediblock is useful because it can give a "heads up" that might be the case, but yeah, people have taken it to excess too at times.
Just because you don't like something the admin said or did doesn't mean you should block the whole server.