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Reddit was a washed down 4chan. For those who came from a forum life in the 00's and knew 4chan too, Reddit made sense.
That kind of content will keep happening and popping, and there will be a lot of people supporting it. Because we'll always have teenagers eager to see fringe stuff, and social misfits that want to be seen/heard.
I think that we need to understand that Lemmy and the Fediverse can hold such things, but they aren't at fault for that. Reddit was faulty as a corporation, but not as a platform. And because Lemmy, the Fediverse and ActivityPub are techs free to anyone, they aren't liable for this, but the owners of the instances of these techs are.
We have already seen how this plays out, thankfully. We've seen a lot of instances defederating exploding-heads.com, and this is good. The same with many people saying to defederate from Meta's new social network.
I think we need to understand that, profoundly, human beings are very heterogeneous. We'll always have nice and bad people. And that communities reflect that. Having everything in one instance (Reddit) is not a very good solution. Having them in different instances and each one with their own ethos, makes more sense as a society. Especially because we behave like that. I usually don't mingle with douchdbags.