blocked instances, meta
i aggregated a list of the 500 most defederated instances from publicly available block lists. i think it's a good base for instance admins to curate their own block list. #fediblock #data
https://gist.github.com/yetzt/32c754fbe87009f8c161f40541147c70
@yetzt@vis.social Did you obtain this information by scraping?
@evelyn both requesting data from public apis and parsing public websites while obeying robots.txt.
@yetzt @evelyn WDYM by public APIs? I thought the only (heuristic) way to tell whether a block exists using server-to-server ActivityPub was to send a message from the potentially-blocked server to the potentially-blocking one and rely on most implementations to claim invalid signature if the block is there (because the most common way of implementing blocking, used a.o. by Mastodon, is to consider signatures from the blocked domain as invalid). Is there an explicit API somewhere for asking about blocks?
