Only about 25% of Sony's revenue is gaming-related. They do other stuff too.

and it's not instigating bigotry (you're allowed to make your own thoughts and opinions.)

Bigotry seems to be a core principle of modern conservatism so I'm not sure how an instance could be a right wing hellhole and not full of bigotry.

Is it true that purchases from sync for reddit don't carry over to sync for lemmy? I don't know how anyone could possibly justify a lifetime purchase if so.

I don't think that's a death threat at all. Guillotines are a metaphor for the working class forcibly taking power away from the ruling elite.

I understand geometrically they have the same number of holes but in my head straws still have two holes because they have an "inside" so both entrances to the inside have to be a hole.

IMO he seems like a nice guy and is using his wealth and influence to do something positive.

I personally think he could be using it for better things, but they wouldn't be as flashy and probably wouldn't be as sustainable for him. Plus perfection is the enemy of good or whatever the saying is.

I haven't looked into it at all but I expect IPs are visible to instance admins. That's pretty typical of any online platform.

I'm not sure how feasible it is but I've seen a sort of "minimum wage" for robots suggested which is paid to the government as tax.