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@briiz@furs.social @FluffyDeveloper@meow.social whenever this kind of stuff comes up, just remember google talk and xmpp, or microsoft "office open xml" file format, having a lot of people using a 'main instance' kinda is the goal, so they can play the card of "well, we tried going open, but nobody wanted to play with us (totally not because we ended up not respecting the own protocol we said we would use, and pushed our weight around to make it everyone else's problem), so we might as well go back to being closed, open stuff will never work I guess"