Big corporations cannot take control of our spaces.

There is no particular reason why a committed group of business professionals couldn’t work their way onto the largely volunteer Lemmy team and hijack the project, buy out major site administrators, or point the Feds in their direction like they did with Aaron Swartz or Ross Ulbricht.

There’s nothing magical about the Fediverse. Its still the product of human labor and hardware, just like every other online space.