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 Failure modes of #blocklists and fediblock

When a blocklist that didn't list its perspective on the issue upfront gets involved in an intracommunity dispute

Especially but not exclusively when people outside of a community get involved in intracommunity disputes

There's a fine line to walk on these issues generally—a lot of fine lines, actually, and a lot of nuance that I'm not going to get into right now—but the caution is that blocklists are _very easy_ to weaponize here

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