I don’t think Facebook became popular because of developers. They have certainly given the community some great tools and libraries, but I cannot think of any i

I don’t think Facebook became popular because of developers. They have certainly given the community some great tools and libraries, but I cannot think of any instances in the past ten years where people were saying “oh yeah, it’s a joy to develop on FB APIs”. Once they even acknowledged devs, they were so big that the infrastructure set up for development was all about the walled garden. Then there was the episode of prohibitive licensing of libraries that made it hard to sue FB if they were ripping off your product but you were building with React. If Facebook is going to die, it’s going to be because of something other than devs. Devs are not enamored with it. They’re at best beholden to it.