@cwebber Thank you for the long thread. I learned quite a bit and probably didn't properly understand half of it, but that's on me.
Anyway, on more than öne occasion I thought "isn't that what Hubzilla/zot is doing?"
again, I'm ignorant and learning there, too. But maybe you find the time to lose a word or two about how zot would fit in there in comparison to AP and Bluesky?