@Legit_Spaghetti Short answer:
Here everything seems to be about _fixing the protocol_ or questions like "how do I get this to work with mastodon, like, ever." The exceptions are monumental tasks.
Everything goes _inward_.
There, everything is "I have this cool idea for a project!" that goes _out_ from the protocol.
They are building _applications_, we are building _infrastructure_ because we can't do anything else.