@Johannes Ernst @Mike McCue  Mass blocking is actually fairly new in the fediverse and arrived with Mastodon. When your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. Some of us use permissions instead. It's a much more civilised way of managing discord and rubbish. We also provide blocking, but when your permissions and personal filters work well you'll find you only rarely need to play whack-a-mole. When Islamic State joined the fediverse some years ago we made sure we could block them, but those tools went unused because most of us never saw them. We only ended up blocking them in the "public stream". Over time, most of our sites turned off the public stream because 1) it's just a cesspool and 2) no site owner wanted the liability.