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The big one here that is compelling for me is Identity (sort of Auth as touched on in the article). My understanding is that there are multiple working groups trying to tackle this, but I don't know of any federated networks with a sizeable userbase that has implemented any of the decentralized identity mechanisms yet. (Please let me know if you're aware of one).

That said, Matrix is quite large, and growing, and being adopted by multiple national governments. And I know they want to eventually tackle decentralized identity, there are open issues and some brainstorming about it.

I am hoping that a federated alternative to HN will emerge because this is the only non-federated social platform I (will) participate on, post-reddit. And probably the only one that has reasonably stood the test of time in the face of tech capitalism, and it's certainly unique in that regard. I like building software that is aspirational and going to stand the test of time, and I wish I had spent more energy til now working to the same end in terms of "knowledge-bases" ala those that have grown in now-private subreddits and semi-private Discord servers.