The situation would be the same if he also could block you for other users and instances without telling them.
Personally blocking a user on your account is fine Personally blocking a user from your admin is fine
Both those things use Lemmy tools and the modlog. Banning people with a secret shadowban malware list and distributing this malware to other instances is unethical.
I'm fairly certain this user is Admiral Patrick's alt. He is in every thread not only defending but straight up lying.
I highly urge everyone to go take a look at the list. There's lgbt communities and instances, small news orgs and even a word ban so your comment doesn't show if it has "Epstein class" in it for example.
The app only showed you half the ban list, it hid the LGBTQ bans, users and comment stuff from what I understand.