Ended up diving into a little bit of Groovy code this morning. Kudos to the folks over at http://groovy-lang.org for writing such fantastic high-level language docs. I've seen enough crappy docs to really appreciate good ones.
PEOPLE WHO MAKE SOFTWARE: "you should always auto-update all your software so that we're all safe from hacks and viruses"
ALSO PEOPLE WHO MAKE SOFTWARE: "that feature you were using? it's gone now. also we may installed some adware and spyware and may have bricked your computer"
This is a public warning, if your instance (or software) avoids/bypasses user-specific blocks, or post-deletion requests, then bsd.network will block your entire instance. This also includes if you "forgot" to implement it.
An important part of the Fediverse is trust, and violating that trust is a quick way to anger us.