That 1345 usage seems dubious...looks like whoever wrote that manuscript just added a flourish to the alpha character.
Yes because decentralisation and decorporatisation is not just for nerds. It needs to be for everyone, about trying to make the world better for everyone.
Reddit is a capitalist endeavour like any other and once the venture capital runs out and it needs to be profitable on its own, the users/community become (even more) secondary to maximizing value for shareholders. This current controversy is just the inevitable result of that and is a great time to take note of the reality of the situation (which is nothing new) and hopefully the fediverse alternatives will continue to gain traction.
My opinion is that these exploitative social networks need to die, they're not good for people and their profit motive will always be at odds with what's good for the actual people using them.
"All" includes federated servers.