@helene @tost @amd64sucks

authority doesnt mean adolf with a boot on your neck, it just means an entity that is an expert in the topic, for the fediverse to ever be bigger and more serious than what it is now, a standard is a necessity, at some point you won't be able to check 20 different projects and how each of them do it, and by having a serious entity taking care of a standard you avoid carrying bad design just because someone wasnt very bright at one point in time and everybody just adapted, also by having a standard you can change things substantially to fix past errors, and everybody can fix it at the same time on their side.