Open post Patrick Quin @PatrickQuin@furry.engineer · 5mo ago Replying to @Rusty@cubhub.social <p>I'm really leery of the new blocklist sharing feature being proposed as part of <a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Masotdon's Sovereign Tech Agency funding</a>. While I'm excited Mastodon is receiving an STF grant, blocklist abuse has been a recurring issue and I'm not eager to see it codified in the admin interface.</p><p>For those that weren't here a few years back, Mastodon has a pretty ugly history with blocklists. They've been repeatedly used to block sex positivity, kink, and LGBTQ+ content. While I agree there are a lot of really bad servers on the Fediverse, I'm nervous that blocklist sharing will lead to the same kinds of censorship we saw a few years back. Plus, and no shade to the people who use it, but the Fediblock hashtag has a lot of posts from people who operate on little to no proof of their claims, or who just want to abuse it.</p><p>To be totally honest though, my hangup with blocklists comes from the fact that CubHub still has to deal with being suspended by a lot of servers from a bad blocklist. We were wrongfully flagged because someone didn't bother to check our About page that clearly states we do not allow porn of under-age characters, because stupid people think "cub" automatically means cub porn. :blobfoxdisapprove: It doesn't.</p><p>So yeah, I dunno. The other proposals look interesting, and, while I've never been one to think we really need E2EE on private messages and who thought it'd just introduce a lot of friction for users, I'm not opposed to it if they can get the UX of it working well.</p><p><a href="https://cubhub.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://cubhub.social/tags/MastodonMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastodonMeta</span></a> <a href="https://cubhub.social/tags/MastoMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastoMeta</span></a> <a href="https://cubhub.social/tags/Blocklist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Blocklist</span></a></p> @Rusty@cubhub.social soatok gave it a reblurb, which is reassuring. He’s spoken about blocklist abuse, and stays on an instance that’s on the receiving end.