Mastodon monoculture problem

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 :smile:

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

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