@feld @sun It's really an artifact of XMPP coming about "too early". As in, the conventions we have today didn't exist back then.

Reminds me of why power, water, and sewage infrastructure is all shit in older cities: they got the versions of things from when we were still figuring shit out and continue to live with those versions to this day.

Also applies to the version of "democracy" we have in the US. :blobfoxgooglytrash: