I personally (and prob naively) look to the web browser's power to bring us the whole internet as an exemplar.
I think the fedi needs to be more about clients/apps than it is currently.
I think the magic of the fediverse's diversity doesn't materialise until it gets stitched together in the user's client ... and that we're still in an early phase of just laying out infrastructure in the cloud.
Federation is cool, but mostly just the beginning IMO.
reiver