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@smallcircles@social.coop @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz Honestly, I was mostly thinking about the discussions around Mastodon when it transitioned from 32-bit to 64-bit IDs. That said, your point does make sense to me. If, in the future, people start implementing new extensions — groups, marketplaces, or other features — they may gradually end up evolving in somewhat separate ecosystems. I think this is also part of the reason why projects such as Lemmy , federated marketplace experiments, or even Mobilizon can be difficult to integrate cleanly with the wider network: each tends to develop its own assumptions, semantics, and workflows. So I can see the argument for stronger capability discovery mechanisms, whether at the instance level or, in some cases, even at the individual user level.