@climagic The other doubt I have is this old blog post by Moxie Marlinspike the 'inventor' of @signalapp : https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
I was always pro federation, but moxie argues that in a fed. env. it's much harder to innovate because the protocol has to change and that takes a lot of time. Innovating a ecosystem that you control is much easier and users go where there is innovation.
I'm still a fan of decentralised services but Moxie has some good points.
What are your thoughts on that?

@arturN @climagic @signalapp It is true that innovation needing protocol level change is hard but competition in the client and server space allows more things to be tried. The article gives examples of protocols like IP that have been static but there are others like HTML which have grown many extensions. Even things like SMTP have not really stood still. In my view the freedoms offered by federation are so valuable it outweighs all other features.

@okapi @climagic @signalapp
Agree! The question for 🐘 Vs 🐦will be if enough (influential) people value that freedom the same way as you. If not this here will stay a geek space (what is maybe also not a bad thing).
In my experience most people value functions/their contacts over freedom/privacy. E.g. getting people to use Signal was/is very hard because
- all my contacts are on WA
- it does not have function XYZ
Most don't care about the privacy features or freedom