@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") replied to a tweet by @bascule:
Before someone says Esperanto, Lojban, or some other invented language which post-dates Volapük and has a fraction of the peak speakers Volapük had: that's the punchline.
You can't make a lingua franca. It will fracture and mutate.