Mastodon monoculture problem

[aschrijver]

@mk3

Without getting buy-in from the very people who are already implementing AP with great success, proposals around anything in the Fediverse will just sit and never get implemented.

There’s multiple ways to get buy-in:

1. For any proposal try to get consent of the big players, and if you don’t get it the proposal is a no-go.

2. Forge ahead with standardization, turning proposals into specs that make sense for the general dev ecosystem to adhere to. And as more projects do, they implicitly provide ever stronger incentives for big players to fall in line with those or become the odd one out.

3. The sweet spot between 1) and 2) I guess

If 2) happens insufficiently, then 1) is the only path left and new players will ‘follow the leader’ in post-facto interoperability.