I do think a lot of this comes down to who can create a better development community.
And Mastodon seems remarkably single leader. And the community seems expressly hostile to letting people make cool experiences that span the network -nthey want a level of insularness & isolation, where the only things happening are defined by their server. And right now there's not much variance across servers; they all do mostly the same things, with only moderation & community differing.
It's going to be an enormous challenge to see competing Relays and AppViews spring up for At Protocol. That really is the challenge, seeing if other people can chew the network. One interesting idea I heard floated was that cloud providers might be able to host their own, that see less platforms or what not might hook into. Not perfect, not as distributed as totally desired, but it sure could be cost effective to have them maintain network copies.
Where-as you will be burned alive if you try that on Mastadon.
And Mastodon seems remarkably single leader. And the community seems expressly hostile to letting people make cool experiences that span the network -nthey want a level of insularness & isolation, where the only things happening are defined by their server. And right now there's not much variance across servers; they all do mostly the same things, with only moderation & community differing.
It's going to be an enormous challenge to see competing Relays and AppViews spring up for At Protocol. That really is the challenge, seeing if other people can chew the network. One interesting idea I heard floated was that cloud providers might be able to host their own, that see less platforms or what not might hook into. Not perfect, not as distributed as totally desired, but it sure could be cost effective to have them maintain network copies.
Where-as you will be burned alive if you try that on Mastadon.