NaibofTabr

So many to choose from…

DuPont Chemical?

Wells Fargo?

Wal-Mart?

Coca-Cola?

My pick would be Bank of America for their illegal foreclosure practices which have ruined many families’ lives, and especially for their role in the subprime mortgage crisis which destabilized the entire global economy and which we are still trying to recover from. Everyone on the entire planet was impacted by the Great Recession.

It’s going to be a challenge for them to reach new people to warp to their worldview if they are largely kept away from everyone else.

This only makes sense if you assume that new people would be funneled into extremist Lemmy instances from other Lemmy instances, but it’s far more likely that new people will be pointed toward such communities through other paths, and then they won’t be exposed to competing ideas.

Don’t misunderstand me - I’m not saying that hate speech, racism and sexism should be ignored or allowed to exist alongside other content on Lemmy. I am saying that trying to ignore that, separate ourselves from it, and pretend like it doesn’t exist and doesn’t affect us, is ultimately counterproductive.

The problem with letting things fester is that they tend to grow and get worse while they’re out of sight/out of mind, until they eventually burst out and spread toxicity everywhere.

One of the benefits of free speech is that the nasty stuff gets exposed. When it’s exposed then you at least know where it is. The only problem is if the nasty stuff doesn’t get labeled as such so it can be dealt with, and instead is treated as if it were normal and allowed to continue spreading (e.g. police turning a blind eye to far-right gun nuts intimidating voters).

In my opinion, “watch and see” is a good approach towards potentially hostile entities. Meta is not “potentially” hostile - it is a hostile entity already,

This is a very valid point. We don’t need to wait to see if Meta, the company that created tracking pixels, will behave as a good actor. They are already proven to be a bad actor and should be treated as such.

I think it’s far more likely that there will be more of this. Lemmy instances already exist for various extreme political views. They might not be federated with the instance you’re using, but they definitely exist.

The nature of the fediverse, with no centralized control or oversight, will produce more such communities, not less.