@mekkaokereke @mjausson we often say in our fedi admins chat that new admins should have something like being presented with a selection of blocklists from the get go and can choose one to import rather than having to find out the hard way that they should be importing one, then having to find one, see if it's trustworthy, etc. Right now the process involves too much 'find out the hard way' or 'already been on fedi long enough to know you need one' and that's not great for new people.

@welshpixie @mekkaokereke these responses seem irresponsible to me. 'trust, but verify' is far too permissive when it comes to social media. since the earliest days of bbs moderation, i have practiced, "deny all and allow only after trust has been proven and only to specific instances". As i have been watching numbers grow, i have been shocked at the open federation policies of many new instances. A federated moderation system like 'fediblock' will rely on a trust framework that doesn't exist yet. this is a very challenging task. it's a great idea, but in the meantime, maybe we can all advocate a locked down instance as a default?

@imklg @mekkaokereke yeah, an allowlist instead of a denylist is also something we talk about a lot. But for those of us who have been here since 2016 there is definitely a trust framework - we know the bad actors. We have a catalogue of them ranging from the worst of the worst to 'your mileage may vary' at blocklists like @oliphant 's. Almost every time something appears in fediblock it's already known to us and that encounter could have been prevented if they had used a blocklist -