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Why would a big company want to use a federated protocol like ActivityPub anyway?
90s Microsoft loved using standards to get a leg up only to try and add stuff on top to ultimately make the people just using the non-MS improved standard into 2nd class citizens.
It was called Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
I have no reason to think that Meta aren't trying to do exactly this