I'm sorry if that bothered you. But the term 'blacklist' has nothing to do with race, except perhaps in the minds of those who are looking for racial meaning. It dates to before 1639 in England.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting#Origins_of_the_term
And the term 'whitelist' is simply an inversion of 'blacklist'.
I've been saying for literally YEARS now that the #Fediverse will evolve towards whitelists instead of blacklists. What you are describing is a whitelist and they have all the advantages you describe.
The downside is whitelists kill the dream of a single great unified Fedi. Instead you get N separate communities based on shared whitelists. (Possibly interconnected via hub-and-spoke instances.)
But there is no true way to fix the moderation issue in an open Fedi. Whitelists will happen.
