will continue to defederate instances that openly promote or spreads hate speech

That’s great but please define hate speech and give us some examples.

Lemmy.ml and other popular instances wouldn’t let me sign up. The button kept spinning and spinning. I tried for hours to get in those instances, got frustrated and was about to give up on this whole lemmy thing. Then i tried with this instance within a second of hitting sign up button i was in. No weird indefinite spinning animation.