It wasn’t politically motivated tho it was ‘toxic people’ that were shadow banned you know “be awesome or else” right? That is how vibe modding works it’s fundamental to the fediverse experience.

This was a small step forward if you only have a problem with this but not all the steps that lead us here then you are pushing an agenda using the perceived political motivations, or you are just dumb.

It’s fine to ring fence your own personal instance

Yea that isn’t how big ban lists work.

secretly implemented on people who had no means of knowing

Yea that is how shadow banning works.

being personally curated by a single individual.

Mhmmm

Just seems like someone went a slight bit further than everyone else and somehow this is the worst possible thing ever it just doesn’t make sense.

It is called the toxicity list if you weren’t toxic you don’t go on it I guess. Honestly IDK what the big deal is the mods and admins here love their big ban lists why is this particular one getting so much attention?

What was the criteria for getting on the list?

Here is some advice then: Don’t run a public service until you understand the risks and are capable of protecting yourself and your users. It isn’t as simple as booting up a service for self use. By using Discord they minimised damages to users it would be worse if they lost control of a Discord alternative with RCE exploits.

Self hosting and providing a public service are two very different things.