There&#x27;s lots of misery and soul searching about the failure of federated chat on here, but all the slack-likes that are gaining usage are proof that the opportunity to fix this is still open.<p>A federated chat that had a good user experience and ideally a feature that appeals to a niche (e.g. easy voice chat for gamers like discord app) could still make headway.<p>In fact, the proliferation of new niche clients with relatively easy integrations is the kind of situation in which a federation standard could thrive.