.world considers .ml tankie and .world is not a neutral instance unless you never mention palestine. So it’s a lot like reddit.

Yes. They literally make memes about instances they despise and how they won’t take anyone from those instances seriously.

because the people who do the punishing also like money and get more of it from continuing the status quo than punishing other money makers.

Because our society financially rewards people for taking advantage of other people, so it would be silly to expect it to stop until it’s unprofitable.