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this is a huge wall of text and I haven't necessarily read it all because I'm tired (I'll bookmark this I swear) but the case mentioned is a person with repeated persistent confirmed-by-lots-of-people manipulative bad behavior with at least two independent rape accusations on top of that.

If you're building a purely general purpose instance or a free speech themed one it's fine to not block this sort of instance.

It's okay to have this "net split". It's a system of curation. It encourages smaller instances.

Mastodon is also heavily used by minority / LGBT communities that deal with abuse and harassment a lot, often for merely existing. And often a "free speech" instance or worse a "no moderation" instance will attract that sort of person.