I wouldn't say "force". Meta is all in on being open these days and they're going in that direction even when they're not required to:

my view is that the more that there’s interoperability between different services and the more content can flow, the better all the services can be

[...]

it was fine to have these systems that people felt a little more locked into, but I think for the mature state of the ecosystem, I don’t think that that’s going to be where it goes

-- Mark Zuckerberg

WhatsApp wasn't the first to open up but that makes sense given it has a few billion active users and an open E2EE encryption protocol is really difficult to implement.

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https://piped.video/watch?v=s5BrVVf0B1I&t=1758

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Forced to embrace, extend and extinguish? Or is this actually a good thing? (sorry I didn't watch the whole 50 min video)