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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