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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    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.

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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.