[warning26]

I enjoy the bizarrely self-congratulatory tone in which this is written.

Congratulations! We prevented a popular service from adopting an open standard! Mission accomplished! Open standards are the worst!

[jdp23]

Of course Meta hasn't been prevented from adopting an open standard. The section on "The next step in embrace-and-extend, coming soon to a standards working group near you" goes into more detail.