And big corp wants to smother it before it’s bigger. It perfectly makes sense. It’s so much more difficult to kill a service/movement when it’s already widely adopted and popular. Identifying small, new players in the field and disrupting those takes very few resources for them, a rounding error, if you will.

The fediverse has the potential to be a threat to some big corps out there, and Lemmy is just one speck in a sea of a lot of specks. Together those specks are growing the fediverse, and the only way to disrupt it is to get rid of those specks.

Not from a big corporation, no. It's probably 4chan types. They tend to get deeply offended when people don't want nazis around.

IIRC there was a post a few weeks ago that had the total number of active accounts somewhere around 60,000. Yeah, we're definitely not big enough to attract that kind of directed attack