Everything I have heard about the importance of .com is signalling, particularly from that Paul Graham article. Basically, you need .com to signal to investors

Everything I have heard about the importance of .com is signalling, particularly from that Paul Graham article. Basically, you need .com to signal to investors and users that the company is a serious endeavour. Meta has no need to signal that it is a serious player. Nobody is going to wonder if a Meta product is a Nigerian scam.