[uph]

> My ideal goal would be a universal, federated protocol, but even having libraries for each protocol with a unified API would make things already easier.

And Moxie is fighting for the opposite.

Yet here you are, pissed off that your goals don't align with someone elses. Use your open source IRC app to talk to your mom and I'll use Signal to talk with mine. No one is forcing you to do anything. Considering your goals and ideas are superior surely whatever you're suggesting will become the one service everyone uses, problem solved.

[kuschku]

> surely whatever you're suggesting will become the one service everyone uses, problem solved.

That shows even more how much you misunderstand the entire market even worse than Google does.

An app can’t win because it is the best, but only through network lock-in effects (which Moxie tries to use for Signal, too) and marketing combined.