I think instances that host certain communities have the responsibilty of setting a certain baseline for mods.

Once again, that’s something I could vouch for personally but me supporting that ideal would not make it a universal rule.

I think instances should be allowed to set their own direction but genocide denial is something I really can’t have.

That’s the reason why no one is forced to participate in any instance. I carefully select the communities I’m subscribed to and read, and then my home page only shows what’s new from those I’m subscribed to. Good luck finding any deniers content in that (or whatever else outrageous content), of they tried they would not last long… thx to the mods in those communities not being assholes and doing a good job.

And we’re back at what I was saying first, someone needs to do the work of cleaning the room. And it can be a lot of work, so not many people may be willing to do it.

In an ideal world your approach would work

I don’t think it’s idealistic, in fact I’d say it’s rather pragmatical: I say don’t try to police the whole Internet to get rid of those extreme assholes (that will never happen, no matter how outraged one may feel about their very existence). Instead, let assholes be assholes together, in their stinky corner of the web, just lets make we don’t have to read their shit content, or to breath in the same room as they do.

I may be wrong, but that’s how I consider the question.