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Are you honestly shocked? They're trying to get in while Threads is overwhelmed by new signups. Hopefully Meta will do the right thing and kick them off but they probably won't.
The big corps have always had a right wing bias. The corps bend over backwards to cator to these asshats while shitting all over the left.
There's a reason this stuff thrives on places like Facebook and will continue to do so. They also want a platform that has the widest reach.
It's why they want to be in the big sites instead of making their own because they want the rest of us to see their nonsense. There may not end up being a big hate presence on fedi stuff because any right wing instances will be broadly blacklisted either by the instances or by the users.
Businesses love right wingers because they are more active, and engaged, than left wingers. They tend not to run adblock, and click and buy shit from ads. So the average right winger brings in more money than the average left winger.
They also tend to get babied because the left will see someone break the rules and get punished and be all "Yeah, he deserved that", but if a right winger gets held accountable, The entire flock goes full rabid and loses their shit with threats of violence, threats of bombings, protests, employee harassment, etc etc.
Yeah, they tend to be angry and dumb. The best kind of rubes.
Broadly and quickly! The message rapidly goes out and in a matter of hours, if not minutes, the instance is defederated.
You speak as if they care about politics; they don't have a bias that exists outside the realm of publicity.
Their "politics" is based on maximizing revenue.
That's the world we live in, and framing them as political enemies who "side with the right" isn't constructive - it completely misses the entirety of the dynamic that we live in, and if you miss that, good luck getting anywhere.