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”

  • AndyGHKEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • AndyGHKEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

          • AndyGHKEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            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

              • AndyGHKEnglish
                3·
                2 years ago

                The core of the issue is the definition of fucking censorship! It’s been a semantic issue the whole time!

                  • AndyGHKEnglish
                    31·
                    2 years ago

                    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.