And how did they do it?

Big tech companies like IBM.

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Well, they THINK it will join the Fediverse. There’s already a pact between a lot of larger instances to defederate them the moment they appear.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/

“Such as racial or ethnic data, sexual orientation, pregnancy or childbirth information, disability, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, political opinion, genetic information, or biometric data”

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Nobody can “get ahold” of an instance in any meaningful way. Accounts can be migrated to other instances. Instances that act poorly get defederated.

If Meta buys lemmy.world you know what happens? Everyone migrates to other instances, lemmy.world gets defederated, and Meta now has a completely useless instance name and not much more.

Are you actually so new to the internet you’ve never seen the same thing posted multiple times when there are server issues? You can find a dozen examples of this on practically every post right now.

And yes, Musk’s main backes in his Twitter purchase are Saudi and Russian. You would be absolutely blind to think that has nothing to do with his actions. Twitter’s content has bent further and further right, towards the general russo-slurping conservative side of things, ever since he took over.

Why do you think they got rid of the “state backed media” tag on RT and others?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-faces-backlash-over-saudi-financing-1755606 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/elon-musks-twitter-bid-leans-on-financier-linked-to-russian-tycoon/articleshow/92093745.cms?from=mdr

If you don’t like those sources just search for others. This is public information, not subject to argument.