I totally understand wanting to see fedi as some counterculture thing, and oddly enough, both sides of fedi think they're the counterculture.
But the tech exists to help everyone. Even normies deserve to be free.
And if the big tech companies try the embrace-extend-extinguish bit and turn off ActivityPub later, we won't have *lost* anything. We'll be right back where we started, and they will have lost *us*.