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I've been on the internet for a few decades, thanks. If you notice, I said it isn't as damaging as Twitter, comparing the two. Elon Musk and his political and social interests, and possibly his funding sources are mostly to blame for that.
EEE has been a business strategy for a while, cool, but also if you notice that is mostly an early Microsoft strategy even according to that Wiki page. I think you'll notice that most of the biggest software company players today(with mainly the exception of Amazon) are actually making most of their money on cloud computing, hardware/software walled gardens(Apple has a bit of a unique situation) and support. While they may intend to squeeze the market into their offering, please explain to me how that works with a federated offering?
Do you think that suddenly all of these communities will cease to exist because an alternative that most of the less technical people use exists? I think looking at all of this logically it's pretty obvious this is just an overreaction and oversimplification to think that them federating is going to ruin everything. Is it beneficial to Meta? Of course. Can it also be beneficial to us? I think yes.