Let’s assume the top executives of Reddit are worried about Lemmy.
Lemmy is taking away users and attention. The ressources that Reddit is desperately attempting to sell to advertisers.
In a meeting, Steve Huffman, Jen Wong, Drew Vollero and Jim Squires decide to spend $1 million dollars on a secret project called Cobra.
Their goal is simple : to destroy Lemmy. Apart from the top management, no Reddit employee is aware of project Cobra, because it must not leak in the media.
How could they actually sabotage Lemmy?
I would be more interested in some theories about why that is possible. The feds have been proactive here, with private intelligence contractors advertising their ability to bore into every nook and cranny of social media, specifically mentioning the fediverse. Open source is under control by nature of the management of the time economy of programmers by capital. There is never enough time to keep up with what people need to be paid to do to live in the hours leftover afterwards they need to cook and clean and hypothetically woo their beloved