Recently got banned for rule 1 after I called a guy a cracker. Appealed it explaining the context and they denied the appeal. But it turns out that nazi who doxed my IP address didn't do anything wrong, and neither did the two open pedophile accounts pushing racism. They sure as hell did a good job cleaning up house of leftists, though!
There's no justification: it's a white supremacy platform which protects fascists and pedophiles while repressing leftists.
I thought signing up for mastodon.social was relatively easy. Setting up your own instance is a different story, but very few people will need to worry about that.