Ok

Mastodon.art suspended me for interacting with people from blocked instances however I won't just go around and block every instance in their own blocklist when I haven't seen any issues from these instances myself.

Let me be clear, I will block anything that I find or gets reported to me that contains racism, homophobia, extremism, pedophilia, harassment and anything of the sort. But I just won't import a blocklist that I do not approve myself.

This whole notion does not make sense for single user instances. Especially with the fact that even if I interact with someone from a blocked instance the other server will not receive the blocked instance post, only mine.

I do find it sad that many people are pushing for more small instances but when you manage one you get blocked for not moderating OTHER instances?

This will only push users into signing up to bigger instances and discourage people to host their own