@asb This is something I've been conflicted on, personally.

There's clearly value in off-the-shelf blocklists for at least some baseline set of malicious instances, which people now have to gradually rediscover themselves after getting a lot of abuse.

On the other hand, there's a very real risk with "review-less" blocklists in particular, of instances ending up on blocklists and getting widely *wrongly* blocked (for reasons ranging from "this is a more subjective block reason" to "someone was added to the list maliciously"). There's a history of this sort of thing being weaponized towards marginalized folks in particular.

I'd really like to see some implementation of blocklists that accounts for this, and that involves a review step but without making it a lot of work. The Fediblock hashtag gets pretty close, but is difficult to explore retroactively for new admins.

TL;DR: Yes, I think it's needed, but it's also something that's very easy to get dangerously wrong.