I don't see what the difference is. There's no reason that the user facing UX couldn't be identical. What's the difference between me.hitting subscribe and my

I don't see what the difference is. There's no reason that the user facing UX couldn't be identical. What's the difference between me.hitting subscribe and my client now checking two networks vs hitting subscribe and it telling my instance to follow another. Again, I'm annoyed Matrix is absent here. Not only can I trivially join rooms hosted on other servers, rooms can be given aliases on multiple home servers which means the rooms remain available even if the originating HS is unavailable. Matrix is a functional, growing, good federated network that really should be talked about more. There are even fledgling forum implementations built on top, it's just a different UX, similar to ActivityPub interop.