@djsumdog
> all of this will happen again .. but shittier
I see no reason for such cynicism. I'm sure the creators of Weird are aware of these precedents.
OpenID, like XMPP, faced the headwinds mentioned in the article; a general shift away from open standards by dominant companies. Those winds have clearly started blowing in the opposite direction since it was written in 2018. Mozilla Persona/ WebID was ahead of its time.