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Yeah, atproto pushes this down to be a community/governance issue. Nobody is preventing apps from working out a common standard and supporting it. However, nobody is forcing them to do that either. So it will play out with natural dynamics. What atproto ensures is that there's a convention for strongly-typed foward-evolving schemas and how they get validated (and reverse domains specify the authority). But ultimately cooperation is up to the community.




For anyone who wants to read up more on this, another of Paul's (non-math) Notes (also, not the same Paul :)

https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/lexicon-guidance




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