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@cleanycloth@mastodon.social It's understandable for absolute, worst-case scenarios like blocking illegal content, but blocking an entire instance for petty reasons is dumb and makes fediblocking an actual laughingstock.

There was a case when a lot of apps blocked Gab, who I imagine needs no introduction. Fedilab did this too, then revoked its block after Google basically confirmed it wouldn't block fediverse apps for letting Gab users connect via their app. It's like blaming every TweetDeck user for posting heinous content, it's that dumb. A lot of instances started looking at blocking Fedilab as a result.

We're seeing it again with Pleroma and its fork Soapbox/Rebased. Because it's mainly used by free-speech, edgy or right-wing instances, and in the case of Soapbox/Rebased its creator is actually in that crowd, some Mastodon instances will go out of their way to block instances using those by association. Mastodon.social thankfully doesn't do this AFAIK.