The comments are interesting. https://evanp.me/2023/10/06/activitypub-the-socialcg-and-the-social-web/
Discussion
Hmmmmm
"There can’t be multiple winners"
Why not?
Metcalfe's law only impies that the overall adoption might be lower
Ppl are leaving centralized social media for very different reasons & if those reasons aren't catered for by a one-size-fits-all solution - and currently they're not - that prediction might be incorrect
And even if it isn't
What is winning?
Is it maximising adoption uber alles?
Or bridges and choice and decentralized decentralized protocols :)
If the networks survive that's a win
Good enough
Lots of bridge love 👀 ✊
He's being myopic again. Protocols, not sites / apps. One site can speak multiple protocols and be part of multiple networks. And bridges can help where the app developers don't.
Every person who uses a decentralized network--any decentralized network--helps all others by legitimizing protocols instead of #corpocentric social sites. Each network can learn from the others and evolve closer to each other.
If we think the protocol is unchangeable, we'll fail to fix its most annoying flaws, which will eventually start chasing devs and admins away, taking users with them.