I can see a potential path for it’s downfall.
- A competing service starts using AT and starts to get popular.
- BS starts losing money and slowly steers AT protocol to be more friendly to themselves and less friendly to competition.
- Competition forks AT, fragmenting the communities and the whole thing implodes.
I wonder if a porn company could host a server for porn. They could even limit the video links to their site so they can rely on their existing moderation tools while also promoting their site. It’s not the best solution since a company is controlling the server but it might be kinda work.