You are free to express yourself here, hate is not tolerated, but there are more fun and effective ways to remove these bad actors than a simple ban; and it will be fun if they let us explore the options available to us. It would be the biggest regret post of their life.
Also keep in mind I’m actively building an activity pub server and associated web framework to build clients with. So this is more of a stepping stone to larger, more complex, using platforms that actually match the needs instead of just doing the first process of building a community.
The community aspect though cant be understated, its massively important, the platform is useless, the choices about names, the logos, all of it meaningless unless people come together around something. And I agree that something is debatable but we do have people forming around something; there is evidence of that, its up to us to shape that.