@icefox This idea I like much.

(Along with several other federation-related projects, such as the much-discussed mastofork.)

Is there, like, a Federation Coders Federation or something? Like, "a group of coders and other people willing to put in semi-regular hours towards building federated software"?

I'm already in a group whose mission is something along the lines of "co-operatizing important web services"; there's some significant overlap there, but it's not quite the same thing...