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@wjmaggos Well the other half of the ax that I grind is that I wish Fediverse developers had much more of a focus on end users, on letting end empowering end users to shape their experiences the way they want so that different people can use the same platform in different ways.

We do see some of that with, for example, picture posting sites existing alongside the microblogging sites. Different interfaces just have to figure out how to handle different types of content coming across.

But taking it a step farther, this is why I emphasize ActivityPub being not so much decentralized as centralized around instances. That is a constraint that prevents this platform from being as flexible to different users.

And I think ATProtocol seems more decentralized and more flexible so that more users can have different sorts of experiences all on the same network.

In a way it’s like how web traffic and email all coexist on the internet. If you decentralize more control you can have more different approaches to the experience.

@Hyolobrika