@NonPlayableClown @DutchBoomerMan @SarahGation

> I have ran some SMTP relays before.

Okay, so you get what I mean: it's not shoveling things into the spambox, it's literally silently discarding mail, so you don't even have a way to know unless someone else figures it out and tells you.

> Then don't talk to them, Jeez. Not a hard thing to do. Literally takes seconds no matter the platform.

Let's say this happens several times a day, and they don't tell you in advance, "I'm here to waste time on drama" so there's no way to know who has questions about how the site works and who is trying to provoke you or waste your time. You might start smashing the red button more often and more carelessly so that talking to your friends is not interrupted so often.

> I mean if no one has given any answers (I find that hard to believe) I can easily can give you my reasons if you really care.

So far, it seems to me that the worst thing he could possibly do is block your instance. If being instance-blocked actually caused a problem, then I'd have had one thousand, three hundred and ninety-nine problems.

If you have anything concrete, feel free. I don't think he can do anything that I cannot do (or any other random person on fedi, for that matter), meaning the potential impact of him turning evil is the same as anyone else, and having known him for a long time, I haven't even picked up a hint of malice from the guy, meaning the likelihood of him turning evil is much lower than I'd assume for most people. If anything, I have excessively triggered public blockbots just to make a point (the point being "Don't add an amplification attack vector to your own instance"), so I'm probably a bigger asshole than he is. He's a friend and I don't foresee problems and if there are problems, I don't think the problems would be worse than from any other friend suddenly turning evil.