A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping mall says ‘if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit’. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate landscape.
At least in the original leaks it clearly said so and apparently they did talk to some large Mastodon instance admins a few weeks ago about enabling federation with them but since it was under NDA no further details are known.