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> However, I would love it if someone proved me wrong. The Signal clients and server already support federation, so there shouldn't be any technical hurdles stopping the people who are really into federation from using our software to start their own federated network that demonstrates the viability of their ideas.

> If anyone needs help doing that, let me know. I'd be happy to help.

I appreciate that you would say this. I suspected that you actually felt this way despite your pragmatic approach outlined in that blog post. I'm a fan of federation, but I think the developers of federated systems have to take the problems outlined in your blog post very seriously and not defensively.