I could be wrong, but I think he's getting at most users won’t bother switching clients just to see one person’s posts and they’ll most likely stick with the mainstream app (in the current case of at proto, Bluesky) - and in this case they won't be able to see your posts from another app because fetching data from your pds is prohibited by the main app overall, no matter where it comes from. Your friends would need to use the client that pulls from your pds to see them
not a knock on at proto but the concept of bluesky being a dominant app on at proto
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That's a good summary. Also zooming out they're going about it one of the very few ways you can go about it if you want to complete with the UX of centralised services and to scale as they have. How their experiment ends up is wait and see, but if the goal is to compete on some level with that UX then it's pretty clear the Nostr/ActivityPub path is not going to work. Nostr and ActivityPub are for users that are willing to let go of certain key aspects of that UX, to embrace the chaos as it were.
I see, I think I get it :)
In the current context of being banned from a view, this now also results in your PDS being made inaccessable for other views (because both are controlled by the same entity).
