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idk, the primary motivator is probably PR, but there is a chance that there's still a trace, a glimmer of empathy and excitement for innovation, hidden way down somewhere in that human.
Don't count on it, though.
They could go a bluesky route and build their own protocol so they could have more control over it. I don't think non-techy people would care about federation to be honest.
Fair point, but they also have to please the EU, which won't buy them creating a new protocol with two existing ones gaining major traction, of which one is w3c standard.
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