> It's a great opportunity [..] social media can be done differently [..] protocol not under control of any single company.
A protocol that after standardization was lost control of, to the extent that any additional extension lives mostly only in codebases making broad interoperability ever harder to achieve.
No coordinated, productive dev community. One app, Mastodon, somewhat in control of their fate. Is it a Yahoo? With all the CEO's, CTO's, serial entepreneurs now gushing in?