I learned something new today that mastodon.social (I could be remembering this wrong, it's one of the big instances) is run by, or adjacent to in some way, Cloudflare. So that kinda changes my perception of who's already in place on the fediverse. I haven't done any research into this but, this factoid was presented as CF basically already being in a position to hoover up user data, parse it in corpo ways, and do with it what they please. Meta/Threads is obviously fuelling the awareness that big players can continue to swoop in and do this.

It's kinda the way fed is designed. If a community (or group of communities) wanna fight this it'll take cooperation and collaboration. Think whole neighborhoods of huge cities using bylaws to keep big box stores and fast food chains out. Or rural communities fighting pipelines and freeways from coming through, or huge suburb development plans, etc.

My two cents.