"Protocols, not platforms" should have remained the philosophy of the Internet. Alas, we are here.

This is why I'm so interested in https://tangled.org/

Even if the platform itself doesn't take off, the protocol and the data ownwership (you host your repo artifacts, issues, prs, etc on your ATproto server) mean that a competitor could come in easily if you were no longer satisfied with performance, reliability, or monetization.

"Protocols" now that everything has been moved to a master-slave protocol (HTTP), we are all slaves of the masters.