That's exactly why climate change is going to kill us all.
Edit : you can downvote me, but if you systematically go for the easiest and cheapest solution, and can do otherwise (and generally, you do), you're a big part of the problem.
We do not understand enough how life begun on Earth to have any meaningful idea of how probable it is for life to exists somewhere else. Maybe in the near future we'll be able to conjecture, but not now.
Thanks to Google and Facebook it was more widely used. When they stopped their involvement, XMPP went back to its previous state.
The Fediverse is already popular. If Meta embrace it before leaving it, it will come back to its present state, like XMPP. But unlike XMPP, the previous state is a good one. Thus it's not something I fear.
I do tend to think that we should defederate, but the XMPP example seems irrelevant to me. It's more like an email situation. That's something I fear.
I'm pastor in France. Nothing techy…