@KitsuneAlicia @Lexi @maloki Tusky has been supporting Pleroma for a long time now. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but the blocking of Gab was largely a defensive measure against a large-scale hostile corporate actor heavily tied to right-wing extremists, harassment, and violence.

Whether the measure was truly effective is a matter of debate anyway, as Tusky got forked at least four times in a row within the last few days, with entries in more than one app store. If anybody can fork the source of an already open Android application and redistribute it, then the block itself could be considered to largely a symbolic act.

There are a non-trivial amount of fediverse instances out there that could fall under a wide range of problematic definitions, but this does not effectively mean that they are Nazis, nor does it make sense to continuously play whack-a-mole against a growing list of servers that we can bundle together through looser and looser associations each time. "hey, those are actual Nazis!" can become "hey, these other people are racists!", "Hey, these people are rude", "hey, I heard some bad things about this admin", "hey, everyone that uses and develops this platform are bad people", and so on and so forth. This has happened over and over again in the fediverse already.

The concern of keeping hateful regressive radicals out of a friendly community space is all too real, but using the client application for doling out domain restrictions does not actually bear fruit in the long term. It's simply the wrong attack vector and doesn't actually keep people out at all.

The solution is to shut those spaces out of our servers, and part of this involves developing better privacy and permissions so that bad actors can't spy on you, doxx you, or harass you. People are looking at the best way to approach a permissions system at the protocol / instance level, which should retain the safety of spaces before the hate flood rolled in. Nobody can fork your instance blocks or adjust them but you. In the future, the same could be said of permissions on public and private posts.