It's probably far more common than most people realize. Open source software doesn't automatically make it secure, and in many cases can be less secure than closed source as it's just one or two people doing it for free.
Much easier to be tempted to do something wrong or to get others to help in and take the weight off.
It's honestly terrible that thousands of Palestinians can die and noone gives a fuck, but 1 Australian and all of a sudden Australia is outraged. I say this as an Australian as well.
It's a hard call at end of day. If you want it to all be privacy respecting and open source and decentralised then you're almost guaranteeing you won't make money from it.
The alternative is ad based software that's free which is also garbage.
Hard to find the balance between the two, can't think of many examples if any that actually work besides just making a paid product that's very good and hope it's better enough than the rest to be successful. But even then you likely will have to cross lines because you're just relying on viral luck at that stage.
But echo chambers are dangerous and can really distort your reality. I personally find going from a safe space/echo chamber to reality very jarring and much more conflicting than from a relatively safe space with some conflict to reality.
By shutting it all out I'd argue you are risking hurting yourself unless you can guarantee a safe space in every aspect of life which is very difficult.
We all want them absent. But then it sort of defeats the point of OPs post saying that BlueSky is filled with bigots when the reality is everywhere has them.
Just because you are not aware doesn't mean they don't exist.
Reading into blahaj.zoje more, plenty of queer folk are friendly and supportive, but plenty are also pieces of shit. Sometimes you may also not realize if you create an echo chamber what is acceptable and what bleeds into extremist rhetoric.
So Tesla's entire strategy Elon was working was just abandoned.
Continues down the pathway that Tesla is just going to fade to irrelevance.