@humanetech In the early days, TCP/IP was competing with the centralist X.25 protocol, a top-down developed global communication network that the ITU considered best for everybody. There is still no interoperability, because nobody is using X.25. This is not due to a lack of advocacy. Now TCP/IP may be far from perfect, but that's a different matter.
@gert indeed. We have interesting projects here on fedi, working on alternative protocol stacks e.g. @librecast
For #Fediverse / #ActivityPub our self-organizing organic structure is so loose and de-facto laissez-faire, that other upcoming efforts having different (and to us undesirable) organization structures might just overtake us.
Bluesky is but one example. I am right now listening to a talk about building European Platforms. Fedi isn't mentioned, but Mastodon is.. as an example to copy.
This video explains a bit more about what we are trying to do. - Esther (@onepict). @dentangle talks about our project and multicast here:
https://spectra.video/videos/watch/42684a9d-c0a4-4cac-abaa-96ea97e15fbf
