I also retired my tier-1 blocklist. It’s the least-used blocklist I have, and I’m managing several; it’s not worth the effort. Every new severity level demands more instances to carefully consider.

Without willingness to spend that effort, its existence encourages me to treat it like a dumping ground for other entries that don’t qualify for other lists instead of evaluating entries’ severity properly.

I will maintain it in private to shine a light on the latter phenomenon, but I won’t share it.

Before you protest, know that I’m maintaining six other blocklists:

• FediNuke.txt
• My tier0 list (might re-name)
• BirdSiteLive, bird.makeup
• Other bridges
• Corporate social media (Threads, Medium, Minds, etc)
• Spammy subdomains

They will be unaffected. If anything, they’ll improve.

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