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Am I the only one looking at this announcement and going "holy shit"?

If we ignore the very well deserved Zuck skepticism for a moment, this kills Snapchat, almost immediately demolishes the wave of negative PR that Facebook is starting to drown under, gets ahead of the regulatory environment that's being put together, and also creates an Amazonesque platform which enables their core service and allows them to expand it dramatically.

Would I run a Discord competitor off FB servers if I knew they weren't snooping on my shit? Yes. Would I care that they use non PII to serve ads through the platform? Not really.

Would I run a slack competitor off FB servers if they weren't snooping on my shit and were enterprise data compliant? Yes. Would I mind if they occasionally sent me ads with enterprise services in my industry (ask me for it, and tell me it's to bucket ads!)? I'd probably welcome it.

They have the engineering talent and the resources to make this happen in a big way. But do they have the sincerity to make it happen? Probably not.