I kinda wonder why Mastodon doesn't let you 'override' an instance block on a per-user level with explicit communication? So they still wouldn't appear in the federated timeline, but at least you can follow/message them directly. Seems like an obvious mitigation to the "instance admin wars" problem...
@joepie91 that's possible when it's just an instance silence instead of a suspend, suspend means no data is ever processed
@f0x Ah, hrm. Isn't it possible to federate a message as 'unlisted', causing the other instance not to show it to other users? Because it's kinda annoying to not be able to contact known-good users who happen to be on eg. poorly-moderated servers