Really my hot take on "decentralization" meta is that the fediverse is not decentralized for any useful definition of the term.
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Really my hot take on "decentralization" meta is that the fediverse is not decentralized for any useful definition of the term.
The protocols affordances in this regard are interesting and would allow for several different definitions of "decentralized," but really fundamentally it is hard to argue that it is "decentralized" in any _useful, practical_ sense.
Back to de facto vs. de jure: I don't think we can compare the de facto implementation of ATProto to the de jure implementation of AP.
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There's value in doing a de jure to de jure comparison and I endorse the several attempts to do such, but also from a practical standpoint I don't think it matters overmuch for where things are today.
For where things are _tomorrow_? For where we can take things? It may matter, but not today.
Today the only really meaningful analysis in this regard from a "debating which is better" standpoint is either de facto to de facto, or de jure to ideal.
