It doesn’t take a whole lot more “resources” to run a Mastodon account than a Reddit sub and I very much doubt they’d leave over hurt feelings. They’re just cozying up to the incoming “security” states and corpro sphere because they decided it’s in their interest to do so.

At worst, they’re already the man in the middle.

At best, they think if they publicly endorse the fascists they’ll be able to sell privacy to the masses.