> Building a decentralized network could also give Meta the opportunity for its new app to interoperate with other social products — a previously unheard-of gesture from a company known for building some of the most lucrative walled gardens in the industry’s history.

It's clear to me that this person forgot everything what earlier Facebook was doing like Facebook Platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Platform and Facebook Chat via Jabber/XMPP https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/110/