Yeah, just like big companies like Google use email protocols with Gmail. It’s actually good for adoption. The alternative is that FB uses its own proprietary and competing protocol, making everything more fragmented.

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That’s all true. I do also think that there needs to be a certain amount of built-in stability in order for federated communities to grow. People are less likely to stick around if there is a high risk that their favorite communities becomes fractured into isolated instances.