@andthisismrspeacock Meta is in dire trouble with EU privacy watchdogs. They were already fined for $1.3bn and more is coming.
Fedi provides perfect cover. Now they can claim interoperability and no regulator can say otherwise.
Why would they ruin that?
If they want, they can mine our data anyway, there's no privacy in the fediverse and we're a tiny drop in a huge sea.
We're not competitors. We don't even register. We're just a cover story. Alibi.