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 Hmm. What would be the reason to suspend rather than silence, then?