[pocksuppet]

Both Blue Sky and Mastodon are that, if you squint.

(NOT ATProto and ActivityPub. Those are platonic ideals of protocols which have no real-world implementations. ActivityPub, especially, was obviously designed by architecture astronauts.)

[echelon]

> architecture astronauts

Not sure how I haven't heard this one before, but I'm stealing it. Salient descriptor.

[npunt]

Even has a wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_astronaut

Joel's post was the genesis https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...

Salient indeed!