@magvids Yes, I believe in all those points too. Just recently had a dialogue with an admin from another instance, which I discovered was blocking ours here.

Why, this surprised me, so I did read their Terms of Service and sent a letter inquiring. Turns out it's not because we are bad guys, but because we do not block some instances that they there see as bad actors and block themselves.

Pretty disappointing, but it's a true fact. I wrote a blog post about it, with my full letter included.

The reply confirmed this, and since we won't block this third party unless we had problems with them, we will remain in this particular instance's black list, along with some unsavoury characters.

And that is a Technology based instance too.