However, this does not necessarily mean federation is off the table, possible avenues are:
<span style="color:#323232;">Implement our own federation protocol
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Implement a promising up and coming federation protocol, polyproto
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Implement the Matrix protocol (unlikely, obtuse and unstable)
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Implement the XMPP protocol (battle-tested and stable)