now here's some good news.

there's no guarantee they'll be successful on terms that matter to them.

unless a half billion people use their service, it's probably not worth continuing, for a company the size of facebook.

podcasting has withstood countless attacks like this, and has always been left standing as unsullied as ever.

but podcasting is "really simple" and the benefit of federation is well known TO USERS. That's been what's kept it from being pwned by bigco's all these years.