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Wrote about this 2 days ago. Appears today that this instance is now on the Oliphant "tier 0" block-list ("[r]equires 60-80% consensus on blocks to appear on this list"). For reference, soc0.outrnat.nl is, effectively, a single-use instance at the moment. I am virtually the sole inhabitant. Regardless, I maintain a robust terms of service which I hold myself to, I widely defederate from hostile or offensive instances, I'm a pretty open leftist, and I don't tolerate hateful rhetoric or harmful content here. I have regularly described the content curation objective here to prune the Fediverse into a comfortable, constructive, friendly environment.

Additionally, I know my inclusion on these block-lists is wholly inorganic, not only due to the laughable logic surrounding "algorithmic" block-lists (detailed in the quoted post), but, also, because I can trace the original blocks that started the ball rolling on this Fediverse butterfly-effect: pleroma.envs.net, cathode.church, and mastodon.art.

These 3 hostile instances blocked this instance almost immediately, and they did it by blocking the top-domain, not the sub-domain: outrnat.nl. Anyone who would have come across this instance and found the content objectionable or harmful would, one would think, organically block this instance's sub-domain: soc0.outrnat.nl; Right? Not the top-domain, which isn't a Fediverse instance. Instead, what I've seen is that the 3 bad actor instances listed above blocked the top-domain here in quick succession (it only takes 1 for others to immediately and blindly follow).

What happened then is others, also, quickly and blindly followed suit. I cannot find any instances blocking the soc0.outrnat.nl sub-domain, but there are now plenty blocking the top-domain, outrnat.nl. Why? Because they saw it blocked by an instance and followed along. What happens then? Others see it blocked by an instance and follow along. Like a feedback-loop this festers and grows. Then, these major, centralized, "algorithmic" block-lists decide that, "algorithmically", due to a certain "consensus" of block-happy instances they reference, an instance must merit inclusion on their "tier 0", "worst of the worst" list! This just further accelerates the feedback-loop, as others blindly adopt these centralized block-lists, because, surely, these major block-lists would have definitely vetted and investigated the instances they've included on their lists, right? They're trustworthy! Etc. etc..

#Fediblock is a fucking cancer.

RE: https://soc0.outrnat.nl/notes/9k1bohd10k