Linux Walt on Nostr: It is important, to realize that we're not really in competition with other ...
It is important, to realize that we're not really in competition with other decentralized social networks. We're trying to break the stranglehold that the corpocentric socnets have over online social. Everyone that uses any decentralized socnet instead of the big corporate centralized networks helps chip away their dominance.
That's also why I favor bridges between decentralized protocols and multiprotocol sites. If I don't have to join $NETWORK in order to interact with my contacts there, that benefits me and means we don't have to maintain a centralized fallback.
I think the instance model used by the Fediverse is too vulnerable to petty dictators, so they'll eventually need something closer to peer-to-peer (possibly Nostr or similar, as P2P that works as the network grows does not seem to be a solved problem). But it is a good intermediate step for people leaving centralized platforms.
TL;DR: The goal at this stage is to weaken the centralized platforms, not pick the eventual winner. Every decentralized user gained is progress.
That's also why I favor bridges between decentralized protocols and multiprotocol sites. If I don't have to join $NETWORK in order to interact with my contacts there, that benefits me and means we don't have to maintain a centralized fallback.
I think the instance model used by the Fediverse is too vulnerable to petty dictators, so they'll eventually need something closer to peer-to-peer (possibly Nostr or similar, as P2P that works as the network grows does not seem to be a solved problem). But it is a good intermediate step for people leaving centralized platforms.
TL;DR: The goal at this stage is to weaken the centralized platforms, not pick the eventual winner. Every decentralized user gained is progress.