@DashEquals Yep definitely, agree on that.
I've just come to the conclusion personally that Fediverse has become too broad for it to be just "OStatus + ActivityPub". Many of the platforms do other protocols as well and many of the AP based platforms don't federate with each other better than Diaspora with ActivityPub.
@DashEquals (ok maybe I exaggerated the last point, but I'm sure there are some and especially there will be an increase in those once AP adoption grows, since it's a very loose "protocol", more of a framework)
@danielst @DashEquals #GitLab is decentralized for example, but it has zero federation (unfortunately!)
Maybe in the future, #ForgeFed looking at you ;)
@danielst @DashEquals Email could easily be used as transport to build a federation protocol tho. I'm sure someone has?
@danielst @DashEquals decentralization does not equal federation.
But I agree email is a good example of bare bones federation. I also use it as an example a lot.
But it's a whole other world when looking from the side of being a federation protocol like ActivityPub, Diaspora, Matrix or XMPP. Thus being a part of the #Fediverse I would say no.