If you're a small community instance or single/'group of friends' user instance, I recommend not making your block list public. I get asked this often, because .art's list is public, and people think that they should make theirs public because ours is, but honestly, no. We do it because we're big and run our community in a certain way and want to provide that transparency to our members, and I'm fine dealing with the shit it gets us (I'm well supported with our mod team and with our admin chat)-

But nah, don't bring that shit down on yourself. It attracts so much abuse and harassment and bad faith arguments and "you're not allowed to run your instance in this way because *I say so*".

If you want a peaceful life, don't open yourself up to that abuse. Having a public block list is a vector for harassment and for most people, there's no need for it. Just be upfront with the people in your community when they ask, that's all you need.