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Thank you for the detailed answer. I'm going to be honest, I don't have the time to check all of this, and being insulted here in the last few days (https://lemmy.ml/modlog/14810) doesn't really incite me to keep coming back to this thread (I made an exception for Jet as he didn't have access to the other thread on SJW)

I summarized my view on the whole thing in this comment: https://lemmy.ml/post/35392790/20764278

Coming back to the Piefed default blocking list, I investigated more, here is what an admin setting up an instance experience is like (https://wetshav.ing/comment/92409)

I'm on my computer now, so I'll type out some more detail if you're interested. To reiterate, I'm just going off memory and it was two weeks ago so I could very well be making stuff up...

The pre-filled input box asked for each blocked instance to go on a new line, so:

lemmy.world  
lemmy.ml  
lemmygrad.ml  
hexbear.net  
lemmy.zip  
piefed.social  
etc...  

I deleted all of the defaults and that was it. I'll put a screenshot of the settings page that's available to admins below:

I agree it should be improved to make it fully optional, but it's still acceptable for now. I guess we disagree on that, and that's fine, hopefully one day the change will be made.