Catching up on Paul Frazee’s post comparing AT Proto’s decentralization to ActivityPub’s federation and Nostr’s “magical mesh” approach:

Our near-miss similarity to the two common models of decentralization is at least partially why we catch heat from them. We’re really similar, but we introduced changes that remove the legible markers of each technology: multiple app instances in the case of federation, and an absence of servers in the case of magical meshes.

It’s a good read. Most of the confusion in the fediverse about AT Proto is because people judge it based on Mastodon’s architecture.