Yes, the article mentioned that and that's what made me think about it; it's a different model, close to Twitter but different from other "thematic" social plat

Yes, the article mentioned that and that's what made me think about it; it's a different model, close to Twitter but different from other "thematic" social platforms. Matrix.org has a good model for channels (called rooms), groups of channels [1] (called Communities), and distributed identities. I only hope that Matrix.org will become the common background middleware for all federated services, and all these will tend to implement the same features for interoperability. [1] https://medium.com/@RiotChat/communities-aka-groups-are-here-announcing-riot-web-0-13-riot-ios-0-6-and-riot-android-0-7-4-933cb193a28e https://medium.com/@RiotChat/communities-aka-groups-are-here...