@tante @aburka @futzle Another possibility would be for the hypebot to set its own blocklist, of a number of prominent known bad instances. User accounts in Mastodon can set their own domain blocklists, if the hypebot did this it would help with the problem described.

Of course, it has all of the problems of maintaining such a blocklist; unfortunately that's become quite a contentions topic. But it probably wouldn't be hard to put together a list of a few of the worst offenders and help reduce the problem.