@lianna @ricard @sophie I heard that so many times when Meta "wanted" to open up threads to activity pub.
You can not EEE a network that is not relying on venture capital to exist. If they opt out we go back to where we are now. I don't see a problem in that.
The reality is now, that meta pretends for like a year to open up for federation but they don't really do it because they don't want people inside to know that there exists a whole #fediverse outside.
@TheGymNerd @ricard @sophie You are ignoring the likely possibility that a lot of people will begin depending on their add-ons and proprietary extensions for their user experience, and if they rug-pull out of there and "opt-out", then people will be forced to follow. Many will.