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by luckylion 1319 days ago
Is it public which servers an instance is blocking / what servers they are federating with?
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Normally, yes. Different kinds of blocks are listed at the bottom of an instance's "About" page. Often there's a note for each blocked instance, too, though some admins leave that blank.

I've seen a couple of servers which only show the block list to users with accounts. These tend to be restricted-membership servers, ones which don't publish their member directory or local feed, either.

Most servers even have an API endpoint for this.