That is not the worst case, by a long shot

And you’re not just being optimistic, you’re being naive

Since you clearly didn’t read the article the commenter linked I’ll sum up the important point:

Corporations routinely infiltrate and integrate with open source in order to destroy it.

Meta will implement federation, then they will “extend” the specification with a bunch of new features that the other places of the fediverse can’t put out as fast, making anyone talking to a meta user at a disadvantage, just like how Apple calls out non-iMessage participants in a group text.

They’ll also likely implement a different specification than they publish, so that anyone implementing the meta features fails due to bad instructions

It’s been done multiple times before, for decades

Ffs, I’m just waiting for Microsoft to start pulling shit with the Linux foundation now that they have majority seats

these corporations are not your friends, they are not on your side, they don’t even see you as slaves, you are livestock