Maybe we’re just ideologically misaligned here. I think every single little community hosting a copy of every single app is insane, and not where I’d like to end up. It’s like the extreme end of the spectrum compared to centralized Web 2.0. I think atproto’s ethos falls somewhere in the middle — community is mostly a “soft” primitive, and there’s only so many full-scale “copies” of some app as there are strong opinions+funding bundles that motivate their existence. So maybe not too many for large scale ones.
> Maybe we’re just ideologically misaligned here. I think every single little community hosting a copy of every single app is insane, and not where I’d like to end up
Well, it's where we used to be — and it solves most of the issues of the modern web. Forums, blogs, IRC, teamspeak, gaming servers, etc, it all used to work relatively well with that approach.