Why so many closed source if the plan is to open source? Are they just trying to get a head start?

Sorry! Meant to respond to this and it got lost in a diamond shower.

Great question, and I suppose that's the most likely reason. I understand the caution of staying closed until you've solidified the protocol, but at this point, XMTP is already being used in production, so I think it's about time for them to open up and start working toward decentralization. Same could be said for the Lens graph API.

Push Chat seems much earlier in the lifecycle but the Push Nodes are going to be the holdup there. Push Protocol has been running for a while now and the nodes are still closed. I'm skeptical on whether we'll see them open up anytime soon.

I've learned that the "decentralized eventually" roadmap is often smoke and mirrors and once teams realize there are trade-offs required they usually abandon principles. DeSo has one more chance left to get it right, and that's the PoS proposal.

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