@bob @Bernard @NGIZero @EC_NGI @dachary

If with "federated protocol" you refer to #ActivityPub then you might say that the substrate to evolve it has completely collapsed. I took notes on that: https://notes.smallcircles.work/_FF2CKvcRy62RrygWkOWHA#

Suppose a Web5 (or 5 or 7) has a consortium of corporate backers with a well-paid team maintaining great quality docs + specs, reference impls. There's no need for open standard. They can push an industry standard. They can do that too if they adopted AP first. Hostile takeover.