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

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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.