@evan I am not saying this is necessarily a completely bad thing, though, either!
I want Facebook to be forced to open up their protocol. I want all social media platforms to be compatible on some basic protocol level.
But this has to be done very, very carefully. Especially when the power differential is as cartoonishly humongous as between Meta nad fedi.
So when I see a super-optimistic take, I recoil a bit. Because I remember those from the time when Google was joining XMPP. ?