If there’s XMPP involved in that pattern then I question your recollection of events that happened. If anything this is going to be more like e-mail where commercial service providers might want to set up some obstacles to avoid spam but also hurt little guys in the process. We’ll see how that goes with EU DSA laws though.
This place loses its function when people vote on posts based on whether they like companies mentioned rather than content value or newsworthiness.
The poll was done a month ago, let’s see how it plays out after recent 170k mobilization.
That’s curious, I use Facebook a lot for local and niche interest groups and have never seen any cross-promotion of other Meta services. Probably an EU thing.