It would be even better if on #fediverse as a whole the developer ecosystem were able to move beyond the app-centric development model that dominates. Basically the app-centric approach constitutes a "poor man's TAM", facilitating technology uptake on the basis of how #FOSS projects are typically developed where the individual devs are in charge and there's hardly need to coordinate and collaborate at ecosystem levels. Here the grassroots environment within our ecosystem failed miserably. Apparently we are too fiercely independent to be able collaborate at scale. When a big player joins you get app-by-app competition, and their product development process is likely to easily blow the FOSS project out of the water.
If we had a more service-oriented #ActivityPub fediverse, a fedi of apps and services, then - depending how this is designed - it might be much harder to 'win' the market, as the competition becomes more on quality of service than feature sets.
