The instance runner didn’t do anything wrong either, other than to word the message less than ideally. But there’s a major point going on with the new “reposter” category, and users have made it clear they’d prefer such accts to be marked as such. That’s the root of things.
I’d encourage anyone else that receives these messages to ignore them and block the sender.
To me that would be like throwing the baby out with the bath water. It’s a one-time message that’ll likely never be seen again, not any kind of spam or whatever. And if we blocked people as easily as that, then we might as well block everyone on the Fediverse who very occasionally annoyed us.
The instance runner didn’t do anything wrong either, other than to word the message less than ideally. But there’s a major point going on with the new “reposter” category, and users have made it clear they’d prefer such accts to be marked as such. That’s the root of things.
To me that would be like throwing the baby out with the bath water. It’s a one-time message that’ll likely never be seen again, not any kind of spam or whatever. And if we blocked people as easily as that, then we might as well block everyone on the Fediverse who very occasionally annoyed us.