> My ideal goal would be a universal, federated protocol, but even having libraries for each protocol with a unified API would make things already easier.

And Moxie is fighting for the opposite.

Yet here you are, pissed off that your goals don't align with someone elses. Use your open source IRC app to talk to your mom and I'll use Signal to talk with mine. No one is forcing you to do anything. Considering your goals and ideas are superior surely whatever you're suggesting will become the one service everyone uses, problem solved.