So the Mozilla Foundation is gonna waste google money on email infrastructure? Hmmm… 'k… it’s not like their browser could use some love…

having them understand what a “federated platform” is, is too much to ask

Email is the usual analogy.

trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating.

Your average person will just land on mastodon.social without bothering to read the TOS… i mean rules, you know that.

And you missed a real key argument: network effect. If average person’s friends are on platform XYZ, that’s where average person will be (although this is stronger with messengers).

Gemini is an attempt at trying to bring the old web back, although with some technical limitations.

So like the TSA?