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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    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.

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      bruh that’s not how it works.

      When an instance is blocked, YOU CANNOT ENGAGE WITH IT. You can view it if you know how to find it, but you can’t access it, you can’t comment on it, you can’t have others from that instance contact you, you can’t do anything in that blocked instance.

      like fuck, earlier you talked about how easy it is for you to make an account. So go ahead and make a burggit account, and then try to post on a blocked instance. You’ll find your post is invisible to everyone.

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        If you can view it, you can access it, dude. And the point is that you’re eminently free to participate in other instances that don’t restrict you, and that there are people using the site who aren’t you who might want posting restricted from some communities.

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          you can’t fucking access it, omg. Go ahead, right now, make a burggit account and try to make a post on lemmy.world

          Then, when that inevitably fails, I hope you apologise for your mistake. ___

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            Dude… “post” and “access” aren’t the same word, and you’re getting unnecessarily energetic about this just because I disagree you’re being CENSORED

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                  Well, I’ve made my point. It’s on you to disprove it, which, as you put it previously, “is easy”. Make a burggit account, make a lemmy.world post, see how that works out for you.

                  See, my whole argument is that I had a beehaw account, but then beehaw blocked sh.it and lemmy.world, so I could no longer access these instances. As a user, my account and its ability to access content got censored without my say. So, I made this one instead.

                  When you block an instance, you are censoring users from accessing it. I can’t make it any simpler than that.

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                    Your point is moot because it doesn’t demonstrate censorship, because you can easily make an account that isn’t blocked.

                    so I could no longer access these instances

                    Incorrect; you could still access those instances, seeing and reading posts; you weren’t able to post or comment to them yourself, and crucially are able to do so if you make a new instance that was federated with it.

                    my ability to access content got censored without my say

                    Okay, so you just don’t know what “getting censored” means. This isn’t how this word is used. You don’t say “my ability to read books at the library was censored”, you say “they censored library books so I have less ability to read them”.

                    When you block an instance, you are censoring users from accessing it

                    No. That’s not what censoring means, for one thing, and for another, you can still access the instance, just not participate in it.