A tactic used by Microsoft and Google in the past:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Basically they embrace an open standard , extend with proprietary nonsense and then extinguish it with sheer incompetency or greed.

Can you elaborate on the 'politics'?

I sense something weird , especially with the hardcoded 'hate speech' filter, which seems to run contrary to federation.

Anything else I should know about ?