social.growyourown.services is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Single-user Mastodon instance for the Grow Your Own Services site

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Hey admins! There are many ready-made collaboratively-built instance blocklists on the Fediverse which you can use to protect your users from trolls and abusers.

Probably the easiest way to discover these lists is on the Oliphant.social page about them, with links to a dozen different lists:

➡️ writer.oliphant.social/oliphan

Each list has its own methodology, usually involving a group of admins voting. There are also blocklist subscription systems in closed beta testing.

The Oliphant · Oliphant.Social Mastodon BlocklistsThis is a place to find curated server blocklists for your own use. There are links to individual blocklist sources, as well as a custom ...

@homegrown oh! I'd thought Oliphant had stopped updating that, but it's recently updated, and the methodology is slightly different. Thanks for the reminder!

Grow Your Own Services 🌱

@pronoiac

There are also links to many other people's lists on the same page, so if one list doesn't work for you there are alternatives 👍