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fedi-block-api already existed and works with any fediverse instance, not only Lemmy.
In my experience, the data on there is significantly outdated/incorrect. The easy way to check is the domain reverse lookup- pick any instance (e.g. sopuli.xyz) and enter it into the reverse lookup. Then compare that to the official published list at sopuli.xyz/instances.
As of right now, FBA lists 9, while the official list is 15. The lists are significantly different as well, with each having multiple entries that are not on the other.
I have no idea how it works under the hood, but I guess there is some caching given how fast results are retrieved.
This appears to be related to kiwi farms? It also has a slur immediately on the page you linked
It was originally developed by Kiwi Farms when they were running their own Mastodon instance.
They built this tool because they were being massively defederated (for obvious reasons) but eventually gave up and closed their Mastodon instance.
Since then, other instances apparently not related to Kiwi Farms (but usually still that kind of "free speech" ones) have reinstantiated the service.
Oh, yes, I haven't seen that.
Good to know. Feel free to use that if you prefer it, the only reason why I made this was because I wasn't aware of the existence any other similar tool.