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I'd argue that a company is more like someone not caring if it runs anyone over or not than someone who accidentally ran someone over. Wilful disregard rather than carelessness. But international harm is still worse than either

That instance is closing down in July, so many communities are likely moving (or the members are)

I dropped literally everything in your list for the reasons you outlined (except WoW, which I dropped before I knew anything about Blizzard).

But Rowling is worse than them.

Corporations are amoral, and entirely self serving. They will fuck over anyone if it earns the corporation a profit.

Rowling is not amoral. Rowling is driven by hate, and her goal is not self interest, and her harm is not indiscriminate. Her harm is targeted and deliberate, and she explicitly uses her visibility to normalise and encourage harm to the people she is targeting.

And deliberate targeted hate that tries to create more hate is worse than amoral self interest.

I'm in this picture, and I'm ok with that :P

We're aware of it, but at this point, we're not planning on it.

The lens through which I view decisions like this is the health of the trans and gender diverse community on the threadiverse. Each time, basically, the process is answering the question Would banning this user or defederating an instances strengthen the gender diverse community on the threadiverse or weaken it? In the case of instances full of transphobes, that take no action on transphobia, that's an easy question.

But in the case of lemmy.world? There are a LOT of gender diverse users on lemmy.world, and the admins are responsive whenever I reach out to them about transphobes on their instance. Defederating them would notably splinter and diminish the community, and I'm not sure the gains are worth that.

If there is a strong community desire that it happen, then we're open to it, but otherwise, I feel it would just leave us with islands of isolated trans folk that can't interact with each other, more than we already have...

Edit - I will add, we have a good relationship with the FAF admins, and we share a matrix space independent of lemmy.world and the other mega instances to aid with moderating against bigotry.

Two party politics

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What am I missing? If someone steals your laptop they can just mountb the drive in their own hardware irrelevant of your bios.

They positioned themselves as the ethical choice, financially supported a bigot, and advertised his distro, then made excuses for it when called out.

Kinda like you're doing

I'm not going to dance around words because you want to protect the sensibilities of a bigot.

I'm not "meh" about denouncing bigots. If you've supported a bigot and you don't actively and vocally walk it back, that's not "meh". That's a refusal to acknowledge the issue and the harm done in normalising the voices and visibility of bigots

Nope. I'm not telling anyone to avoid Framework or anyone else.

But they're not the "ethical" choice. They're another shitty company doing shitty things that hurt people. That should be a factor in your purchasing decision, but it shouldn't be the whole of it, because it's pretty much impossible to exist without supporting companies like that in some way or another.