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Okay, however, all of fedi isn't much better. Including Lemmy.

the fascists of the fedi don’t roam free on the wider network, they harass in secret, usually in DMs or "followers only" posts

there’s also a problem with subtle white supremacy, where Black people (and other POC, but mostly Black people) will get piles and piles of harassment that’s totally unrelated to being Black you see, of course, but its not happening to white people for some bizarre reason!! (see also: the many cases involving TheBadSpace where any Black person who was ever so slightly in favor of Ro and their work would get a fuckton of harassment)

(the last one is present on pretty much all social media, be it pre-Musk Twitter, Bluesky or Tumblr, but im told that it’s especially bad on the fedi)

Thankfully all the instances we're on block heavily but there are some well known bad actors who are white supremacists and a lot of reply guys, JAQ etc people too, I've seen quite a few who have slipped through the cracks before.

Yeah, if your instances doesn't discuss politics and you don't follow anyone outside of music circles or at least don't open anything with a political CW you likely won't ever see it, but it's there.

For example, from a US-based perspective, a "positive" is that law enforcement agencies and the thousands of social media monitoring tools they utilize look at Twitter and other big platforms. LEO agencies have had for years the channels to monitor posts and request instantaneously from those companies supplemental information on the user or post that is being investigated. LE will be out of luck if they were attempting to immediately investigate a user on an obscure white supremacist forum hosted in Russia. That website owner and its servers would not be in jurisdiction to respond to that request.

Also, please see my other reply 1 minute before yours regarding private companies being able to ban, suprress, etc. I agree with you that private companies can run their own ship how they please, whether in the best interests of profit or ideology.

Additionally, fascists need these safe spaces to convince themselves that their opinions are the majority. They don’t feel emboldened to act otherwise.

Sure, I don't object to your statement of Twitter not being a free platform, and I did not claim it was. Conversely, other social media have been also known to suppress the right and protect the left. Social media can "lean" so to speak. They are provately operated companies after all. I value free speech nonetheless.