[Andrew_nenakhov]

What you perceive as progress is just a sign of immaturity of an ecosystem. One player will ALWAYS move faster because he doesn't have to check with other participants, single-handedly self-defining specs and implementing them in own software. But reliance on this model will never allow another participants to enter, and it will always be a one-vendor vehicle.

Proper federated networks are ones that are already past this initial phase of fast progress and where participants have learned to work with each other.

[gefhfff]

Having progress (and thus the possibility of falling behind) doesn't say anything about the speed of progress.

> and it will always be a one-vendor vehicle.

You are clearly not speaking of Matrix: e.g. Element, Beeper, Dataport

How no progress ends up, can be observed with email and xmpp

> Proper federated networks are ones that are already past this initial phase of fast progress

That's made up by you. I claim proper federated networks are ones where you can fall behind