Yes.

But billionaires fighting back is just issuing an order for someone professional to do so in their behalf, themselves risking basically nothing.

Middle and lower classes need to do to work, do their chores, fight stress, organise, research, maybe take a loan to pay for legal costs, etc.

Someone might say the system is rigged.

Why tf are countries with a suffering middle and lower classes targeting them especially?

To squeeze one more monthly subscription out of them?
To just make then skip the culture they can’t afford?

Yes, I think this is the case too, especially with this gen.

nVidia doesn’t really have that many successful unshits, historically speaking, do they?

*how to make IRS forgetn’t to tax the rich

Why would Bluesky be?
It has a responsibly to its owners to maximise profit.
So they will block & force-promote just like any Twitter or Facebook.

And what is self-moderation? The block function? Or like choosing your interests (like subscribing to tags/channels/instances)?

Are people running megacorps not random persons deciding what you can view or not, but with extra wealth concentration?

And the beauty of federation is that the process is (and is evolving ever more into) a bit more democratic with easier transitions or irrelevancy of what your home fedistan is.

With megacorps you don’t have even the theoretical option, you can just move to an entirely new platform.

I agree with you, the number/the rise of users on such platforms makes me feel sick. There literally is a built, proven, & running alternative. The difference is what, “the onboarding process” which instance to choose if you wanna post & vote?