[VikingCoder]

I get your intent - that people don't understand what federation means. But you're completely ignoring that we all live with federated email servers. Federated cell phone carriers, too, for that matter.

Once upon a time, you had to go to a college that had been invited to The Facebook, in order for you to get an account.

The beginnings of new things are always complicated.

We all learned the difference between .com, .edu., .co, .uk eventually...