A site without bigots isn't sterile

You still have to create a profile on Threads when you set it up. Instagram is waaaay bigger than just 10 million users.

If an instance does off because Meta won't defederates from it, then it probably would have died off anyway.

Because billionaires influence politics... Unfortunately.

You apparently have herpes. Sorry you had to find out here.

Defederating helps because it limits their reach to a wider community. They're currently a small group because Lemmy and Kbin are new. If they're left unchecked, they will grow.

You are never going to eliminate groups like this, but deplatforming them prevents their ability to radicalize more people.

Banning white supremacy is not the same thing as making an echo chamber.

Support for Trump is inherently racist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic.

Beehaw has been popular for like a week. How can there be a typical user?

There are tons of magazines getting set up across several instances. We need time to see which ones succeed.