[abstract_put]

I won't presume the relative weighting of motivations, there's a notable blog post here [0] that elaborates on Moxie's dislike for federation. E.g.:

> So long as federation means stasis while centralization means movement, federated protocols are going to have trouble existing in a software climate that demands movement as it does today.

While my initial reaction was "omg, I hate it", I don't 100% disagree. I think one of the biggest drivers for adoption in Matrix world would be a streamlined on-boarding to a central server (matrix.org?), so that it "just works" by default. Like the front page of Reddit, get people in the ecosystem, then they can discover the subreddits and engage more deeply with the platform.

[0]: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

[Vinnl]

Agreed, although at that point, what's the point of the decentralisation?

As a comparison, email is technically decentralised, but if I were to move off of Gmail, 80% of my emails would still be on their servers because that's what their recipients use.

(This is of course somewhat of an exaggeration - it's still better than if email were a proprietary Google thing. But it's less of a utopia than my decentralisation-minded self had in mind in the past.)