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Jonathan T

@poswald @darius The abuse vector is that vile people can create lists to export and share among themselves, to make it easier to target specific people for pile-ons - happened a lot on Twitter. If you can't be added to lists without being followed, and you also lock your account to require a review before someone can follow you, you can better prevent that from being an attack mechanism.

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Jonathan T

@poswald @darius Trolls can bypass personal or instance blocks by creating multiple accounts on many different instances, and being able to easily import a list into each account makes it trivial for one account to pick up where another was blocked or removed.

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