This is a very long post, so I imagine few will read it (fair enough), but I felt it added significant value to fediverse discourse and haven't seen it around, so here it is.

edit (much later): nobody will read this but editing to add additional useful context seems like the right thing to do, so anyway:

this issue in general (not just this specific post) has continued to bounce around a bit, and so I've done incrementally more digging as time has gone on. I still don't have much to go on for a lot of the accusations, but as for the block list itself, someone from Nivenly said this:

But anyone can look at the version control history: TBS accidentally shipped a union of blocklists instead of an intersection, which unintentionally blocked some 80% (or thereabouts) of the Fediverse. A queer person noticed, panicked, and thought it targeted queer spaces—but they later issued a public retraction when they realized: it was all spaces. Not just queer ones. Ro fixed the issue at the time. Years ago.

this link was provided as evidence: https://koodu.h-i.works/projects/thebadspace/commit/572f7c50274f5bdc22fcb947d37824c3de213af2

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I can see your point. Alternatively, and I know this is precisely what people dont want to do, but you can just have multiple accounts. I do, and Jerboa makes switching between them painless. This grants me different "views" of the fediverse based on instance (as you said). I actually like this, as its more choices for me to choose what I want to see at what time.