>One of the points that Aurynn Shaw makes is that federation hampers the addition of protocol features because new features have to be agreed upon by all participants in the federated network. This adds friction to the evolution of protocols, and results in the phenomenon wherein Slack runs halfway around the world while IRC is still putting on its shoes.
This is effectively the point Moxie was making with Signal ("the ecosystem is moving").
I don't think that this means decentralized services (IRC or Matrix or insert-your-thing-here) shouldn't exist, but it's pretty much proven at this point that centralized services will always gain the lions share.
This is effectively the point Moxie was making with Signal ("the ecosystem is moving").
I don't think that this means decentralized services (IRC or Matrix or insert-your-thing-here) shouldn't exist, but it's pretty much proven at this point that centralized services will always gain the lions share.