I'm confused by this comment. It's written as if federated social media is a hypothetical technology someone is proposing. It isn't. It's a real technology with

I'm confused by this comment. It's written as if federated social media is a hypothetical technology someone is proposing. It isn't. It's a real technology with dozens of interoperable implementations, thousands of running servers, and millions of users. A precursor of the currently popular ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon launched 15 years ago with Laconica and has been under continuous development since.