A platform without ads or evil corpo ownership? Yeah, I'd scared too.
The response though is interesting to me because when the right faced the same pressure it rallied them. They made so much noise and used every lever they could. Like the littlest 86 year old Republican grandpa took to online accounts and became obsessed with making sure people could say racist facist bullshit online. But people on the left retreated. We said things like "don't wressle with pigs" like we're better than it all. When I bring this up to people the say "well they're just funded" but it's like they don't understand that funding probably paid for a lot of accounts to convince us to retreat. My 2 cents anyways.