200iq thought just came to mind

curently, instance admins deferating "" bad"" instances for all users of said instance places the users into a stay-or-leave situtation. they either stay and remain isolated from bad guys, or make a profile on a different instance that has no such defederation policy.

i propose to you the
RECOMMENDED BLOCKLISTS.

the idea is simple: instance admins can still create lists of instances and users they don't wanna see, but instead of being defedded they get put on a RECOMMENDED BLOCKLIST.
said blocklist has a title, description of why the list exists and (optionally) a brief note next to a user/instance that may describe the crimes they commited.

said BLOCKLIST is enabled by default for newly registered users, and is shown upfront to users during onboarding, with ability to read and check out the offenders profile by hand. that was the RECOMMENDED part.
the "enabled by default" part is important cause joe, the average fedi newcomer will just click through all this unconsciously, and will end up no worse than currently.
once joe gets acquainted with fedi and perhaps wants to interact with the ""dark"" side of it -- he can just turn off the blocklist from settings.

what do you think?
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