>There's a common ban list in Mastodon that if you don't include, you will not be able to join the "main" Mastodon cluster. I run my own instance. As far as I

>There's a common ban list in Mastodon that if you don't include, you will not be able to join the "main" Mastodon cluster. I run my own instance. As far as I can tell, this is false. There are some ban lists floating around, though I'm yet to see a common, standard policy of blocking instances because they don't subscribe to a particular blocklist.