[fsflover]

> It's called network effect. Just because it is open source won't magically make it federated and it certainly won't - magically or otherwise - convince a majority of users to leave their friends behind for a new network.

That's why I wrote about alternative compatible servers creation. Do you think it would be impossible?

> That doesn't help unless you have a verifyable build process.

This is true, and reproducible builds are getting better every day: https://reproducible-builds.org/