they could have done the hard work of coordinating real world meetings with various existing projects to hash out federation issues Actually, StatusNet did a g

they could have done the hard work of coordinating real world meetings with various existing projects to hash out federation issues Actually, StatusNet did a great job with that, organizing the Federated Social Web Summit in Portland last summer. I was there (Appleseed), so was OneSocialWeb, Gnu Social, Diaspora. It was good times.