@LittleshyFiM It's more to do with blocking meta corp from collecting data on users and other instances and selling them to data brokers and the likes for profit with disregard to privacy and possibly influencing ActivityPub tech and other instances in some ways.

Corporations tried and are stilling doing the same with linux in some ways, anyway they can i.e patent trolling.

It sucks that we'd have to block users on those instances (which is not our intention), but we're doing this specifically to protect users and our instance from meta. That's not even getting into the reputation FB has for letting misinformation and extreme ideologies go rampant.

@Shredd_Tone That's sad to hear. I can't help but think locking things down so quickly and preventing people from following what they want to follow is the very thing Mastodon sought to combat.

Seems like most of the discussion about Meta Threads is basically saying Mastodon should have a whitelist instead of a blacklist when it comes to blocking servers. I'd hate to see things go in that direction. I wish you all the best, but I'm probably gonna try out the migration feature and find a server which is more open soon.