Because VC money has dried up. For a very long time tech companies have had investors throw them basically infinite amounts of money and have proceeded under the idea “we’ll figure out profitability later”, now that money is starting to stop coming in and they are panicking and trying to reach profitability in the shortest amount of time possible.

I think it’s incredibly important to federate with Meta! If we want the benefits of this tech to increase we need larger platforms to join in on the action.