The instance seems to be mostly right wing trolls. I know defederating is unpopular but I don’t think much is to be lost in this case and it can save the mods some headaches.

Edit: the response on exploding-heads.com to my reporting of transphobia. Courtesy of the “second in command”

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    Do not mistake inconvenience for oppression.

    That is NOT censorship. Everyone on that instance still has every opportunity to say whatever they’d like. Don’t cry over the fact that it’s not reaching as many people as you want it to.

    Obligatory XKCD about this topic.

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      So you’re pro echo-chamber? You also completely disregarded my point about having to make a new account.

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          How is having to make a new account in an entirely separate instance not censorship?

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            …Because how is it censorship?

            You can literally access all content available on every instance from any account.

            Making an account is free and takes two minutes, I literally just did it.

            You can comment on any content you’re federated with from any account.

            You aren’t being suppressed from speaking at all.

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              You can literally access all content available on every instance from any account.

              No, you can’t. If an instance has one blocked, you can see it if you deliberately look for it by typing its URL or looking in Blocked Instances. But it won’t appear naturally in your feed, nor will you be able to see its users or interact with it.

              That means it stops you from interacting with those blocked instances, even if you liked the content from said instances. See the problem now?

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                Well, no? Because you can still make a new instance to engage with that content? And because you can still see it if you deliberately look for it? Like I literally said?

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                  But you can’t interact with it. You have to make a new account in an entirely separate instance to do that. Why do I need to make a new account to access other instances because some mod decided they don’t like the content.

                  Right now making new accounts is easy, yeah, but if the fediverse gets large, it’ll become impossibly difficult to make new accounts if your name is common.

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                    No offense but I don’t especially care that you don’t like how it works, because my point is just that it’s not censorship. Demonstrably you don’t need to make a new account to access other instances, you can still see and engage with those instances by deliberately interacting with them.

                    Why would you federate yourself in an instance that you disagree with the moderation on??

                    Lol as the fediverse gets large this problem will shrink, not grow, because more groups with different moderators and different moderation styles but the same communities will crop up.