[knolax]

>The "main" mastodon.social instance

mastodon.social isn't even the largest mastodon instance[0]. Even aside from that The majority of active accounts are hosted on small or personal instances, especially for English speaking accounts.

>extreme in their views on moderation

IIRC instance admins had an issue with the purism instance not actively going against hate-speech. I'd hardly call that extremist.

[0]From https://instances.social/list

Instance Users

DOWN pawoo.net 549417

DOWN mastodon.social 321500

DOWN mstdn.jp 191718

UP switter.at 118232

[lone_haxx0r]

It isn't extreme, statistically speaking, but at least it isn't what I would want in a social network. If I wanted a heavily censored network I would just use Twitter.