Yeah I get that but any big tech company can just buy the entire fediverse if they want to. They can offer instance owners money to sell their instance.

…and they can turn around and create another instance

They can put Lemmy developers on the payroll with 500k salaries, or replace them.

Lemmy devs don’t really “own” the code, since it is free software. It can be forked at any time by anyone.

They can add things like allowing people to make money by posting stuff.

…and existing fediverse instances can just not federate with instances that push that bullshit