@jdp23 @erincandescent @thisismissem
Guess it depends where the general focus is in the developer community wrt protocol evolution. If the general trend is "it should work with Mastodon installed base", things likely will go much slower.
More devs willing to tread new grounds, explore new app types, build libraries, plug holes and take time to bring this to docs + specs, may speed things up quite a bit.
PS. I like @bonfire with federated groups, circles and boundaries: https://bonfirenetworks.org