Hi all, I’m a Lemmy FOSS app contributor that’s made a couple of tools for people starting small instances including Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS) for building content on new server’s All Feeds and Lemmy Post Purger (LPP) for clearing old posts on smaller instances.
Today I’m releasing Lemmy Defederation Sync (LDS). When launching a new Lemmy instance, administrators may not understand the necessity of defederation with problem instances. Using LDS, you can sync your instance’s “blocked instance” list with that of another server(s) whose admins you trust.
Except you don’t import blocklists, you typically query them (and maybe cache that result for a very short period) as email blacklists are very transient, especially so that admins can remediate. Also email blacklists aren’t being weaponized for “I vehemently hate/disagree a select few of users on this server”, it’s generally reserved for high-volume spam.