@freemo It's a thing that mainline masto has been asking for a lot, and it's just what it sounds like: the ability to silence an instance where it *only* keeps it off the fedline. Because there are a lot of things out there like arthaus bots that are perfectly fine *except* that they're so noisy they can overwhelm the federated on a small or even medium site.

"Force-unlisted" is another way to look at it.

@freemo So you're willing to patch things to allow anonymous follows but not to create a fedline-only silence so you're not perpetuating hate?

That's an interesting policy decision.