@feoh It's fine to have multiple protocols and multiple implementations of something.
Competition encourages everyone and everything to get better.
E.g. we'd still be using POP for email if people didn't come up with IMAP.
@thomasfuchs I think that's true, but I also think downward pressure can inform crappy decisions.
Like the fact that Masto is now going to direct everyone to mastodon.social by default (I don't care personally, but that seems like a monoculture in the making and not in the spirit of what makes fedi great).
@feoh They're doing this so people actually sign up; previously they'd just not sign up, to any instance.
Which means you've lost that person, probably forever.
Much better to default them to that general instance and later when they know how everything works they can pick an instance and move there.
@thomasfuchs That makes a lot of sense actually. Thanks for giving me a different perspective on this.