As a show of good faith, they should open up Messenger to support interoperable open standards without needing to use various self-hosted bridges on the likes of Matrix.
Having “AGI” —or at least a very convincing conversation agent— isn’t helping much.
Another idea that interests me is whitelist-prioritized communications for stuff like IM, and phone calls from the PSTN. If someone isn't in my address book, they shouldn't be able to get through as easily (not saying block them completely, that sounds like a disaster).
It's funny, so much hype and emphasis on things like AGI and crypto, but the problems we should solve first and foremost aren't anywhere near as sexy or lucrative. Profitable shareholder driven biz are usually by their very nature never going to chase these types of problems.
Not-so-interesting anecdote, but the missus was orphaned in the early '00s, but didn't realize she'd had blood relatives trying to contact her through Facebook since the late '00s until about 2015 due to the "other" non-primary inbox on Messenger that she couldn't access via the app, and only via the website (quirk of the phone she was using for several years as I don't think it was Android-based).