multiple factors, such as unaddressed ableist removals from the /c/196 moderators, defense of chasers, no-quarter rules regarding our users, leakage of good-faith DMs from our admin team, and a general lack of initiative to punish these behaviors

https://hexbear.net/post/369410

Short version was some mod posted an ableist slur (-t*rd) and then after getting called out doubled down. There's more context and tensions were already strained but that was the big struggle session before the defed