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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    And all of the tankie subreddits were never touched despite having the same content.

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      Almost like tankie subreddits weren’t gaming the Reddit vote system to push literal propaganda to the front page for years or something

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        Propaganda is the front page, my dude. Won’t deny T_D was shitty, fuck em, they deserved the ban-hammer for having an echo-chamber.

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          I mean, yeah, but my point is more that they were uniquely shitty for actively fostering the echo chamber and regularly intentionally breaking containment onto All.

          I distinctly remember in 2016 how many pro-trump posts would pop onto the top of All with thousands of T_D upvotes, because the mods would pin posts they’d want to rally behind to the top of the subreddit. It really wasn’t largely the same content.

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            And all the alt accounts, bots and upvote scripts.

            Anyways, modern frontpage has a ton of disguised ads anyhow.

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              At least they have the courtesy of being disguised. Lol maybe you remember how on the nose the trump-stump posting was.

              LOCK HER UP” (6,765 upvotes)

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        Whataboutism is perfectly valid.

        Get your American politics out of your head when talking about global issues. Just makes you look ignorant.

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          Not American, just pointing out that you needed to change the subject in order to come up with an argument.