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It's great that misinformation and hate are blocked, until someone decides that something you want to see is misinformation or hate. Server admins like drinking Coke? No prob. But maybe you drink Pepsi, and suddenly all the Pepsi-drinking communities are blocked. How is that safe space working out for you then? As a more real example, a blog that I like got demonetized by Google (reversed after some journalists intervened) because it published some opinions that Google's algorithm (incorrectly) decided were misinformation. Not good.
On Reddit, I mostly hung out on fairly sedate subreddits, but there was one that I occasionally visited that got blocked for posts containing, shall we say, more extreme forms of sarcasm than the genteel shitposting than we see here on Lemmy. It seems that Reddit decided to block its Trump subreddit, while simultaneously blocking a bunch of unrelated ones (collateral damage) to make it look like they weren't being political. The Trump one really was misinformative and hateful but overall I think it would have been fine to leave everything alone. Even with the Trump subreddit gone, Trump is still likely to become president again, so blocking the subreddit wasn't the answer.