@wjmaggos @jeremiah @realcaseyrollins @p @Moon

We can already see which instance people come from. But to answer your question... I wouldn't want to discriminate based on instances like that. I prefer to handle individuals as individuals and block as necessary, and only block instances as a last resort. I'm going to have my biases and impressions, but I don't want to bring them into my moderating. I think we can do better than this.

Before mastodon blew up and we had the people set on blocking instances first, we had little problems with this. The worst was one instance blocking another over loli because of a legal question where the server was... and I think the tools were still being developed to figure out a better way to handle situations like that. Now you can get instance blocked for silly reasons. Even just one person saying something gets your whole instance blocked. People are too quick to instance block. Why would I want to cater to people that cause drama like this and I never know when they will turn against me next because they don't like me or something I say? I can be polite and it won't matter. I cannot appease them and doing so would become exhausting and unhealthy for me.