This happens on decentralized social media, too. Fedi dwellers are all so convinced that the trolls wouldn’t have happened without intervention and man, is that not true.

Don’t get me wrong, the corpos used that dynamic for profit, but they didn’t invent it. Having been there before the algorithm, old forums, IRC and other protosocial spaces had very plump trolls, and so do federated, decentralized spaces when they reach critical mass.