That's a bit much, isn't it? I mean, screw the weirdos at .ml obviously. But the folks at plenty of other instances, such as my home at lemmy.ca, are pretty chill, and startrek.website has some good goofy stuff.

You're not "supporting" bad actors on one corner of a platform if you use another corner of it. Like, I think we knew back over at Reddit that people who subscribed to /r/aww weren't "supporting" the crap going on at /r/jailbait when that was a thing. And critics had better cause to argue otherwise then, since Reddit profited off of visitors to both. By contrast, people on separate Lemmy instances are on completely separate networks, connected only by federation (or not, if an instance defederates) and each user's individual choices as to which other instances' communities to visit.

Lemmy, Kbin, others.... Let a million flowers bloom. And if one flower goes rotten, just trim it off.