I don’t think it’s anti-spam. It looks pretty much like a personal blocklist, it blocks a lot of users that have political views that the tess dev doesn’t agree with. It blocks political keywords often used by certain ideologies that I guess the dev doesn’t agree with, for example, no ones blocking “neoliberal” as a keyword because of spam.

This looks entirely like a personal blocklist which is completely fine, but secretly adding it to the frontend is v dubious…

It’s a shame I think the dev is a good person from the convos I’ve had with them, but this crosses a bit of a line…