A little maybe, but not much.
I’ve seen people say they left reddit to join Lemmy because of the toxic users. To each their own, but I personally think Lemmings aren’t much better. Some people over here can’t understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent. People are way too defensive about their opinions.
It is disappointing, but it’s the better option.
On one hand I’m not sure elaborating would be a good idea, on the other the broad strokes are “spin up a few instances and be a dick in various ways”. People are already blatantly doing that anyway, so it’s not really a secret. Federation is limited - who even federates, who defederates, any other limitations, community rules and whatever else, a bunch of stuff influences the actual content you see. Random fediverse happenings (good reasons, bad reasons, outright technical failure) have already caused a bit of headache on their own, let alone what a motivated malicious actor could do.
Most overtly deliberately inflammatory instances get federated.
Well, yes. I’m not sure what your point is here. I’m focusing on your claim that someone malicious (a corpo) could somehow subvert the Threadiverse.
I don’t see what a malicious actor could do just by spinning up an instance.