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Ironically early on when we debated blocking GAB, which is where all this started, it was our LGBT community that urged us not to since many of the users were alts from other instances who used QOTO as a means to monitor GAB accounts for threats to their community (such as Milo doxing people).
Since we were the only really actively LGBT friendly instance that took a stance not to block GAb it wound up being a significant part of community here. Over the years we added additional features to help them along such as our subscribe feature which gave them some additional privacy when monitoring a GAB account (not needing to follow it or notify the account they are watching).
The irony is that it did, of course, get us blocked by a lot of instances that blindly blocked any instance that had an open-federation policy, but in my eyes it was an acceptable price to pay to help support our community here, they made a compelling argument to me for the need at the time and I still agree with that decision.
