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Facebook messenger did the same . You used to be able to talk to fb users via google chat all from pidgin or another xmpp client. They are a hostile actor on the web who have already proven themselves untrustworthy. Let's not forget the Snowden docs or Cambridge Analytica
Meanwhile, meta is about to join the fediverse and do it all again.
I'm sorry, but what do the Snowden docs have to do with anything? I'm out of the loop apparently there