Mastodon doesnt use pods. Which is kind of a shame, because they implemented part of the standard, but not the bit that lets them have pods.
From my POV all the things you say can be done with an "AND" attitude. The prevailing attitude is "OR". We use Nostr OR we use Solid. We use BlueSky OR we use Mastodon.
The OR mentality is great for developers and empire builders. The AND mentality is great for users. I've always thought from a user perspective of building the things I want to use myself. It's a minority view, and you actually get a lot of hate when you have a user perspective. But in the end you get to use a good system, and as a side-effect others do too.
A better solution is "AND". We use nostr npubs AND we use nip-05 addresses. Same with having Nostr to relay and Pods or DBs for storage. Nostr is one of the worst imaginable DBs, but has great properties as a relay.
So the "AND" mentality works really well. Of course few want to admit this, because then they cant say "Nostr fixes this", and all the money that goes with that.
Pods are simply a piece of the internet under your control. Much like a unix file system. It could be on your phone, in the cloud, or on your file system. The glue is in place to include all of this, plus have privacy controls. AND mentality is 100x more powerful than OR. Simply look at what Zuckerberg built in 2 weeks with the LAMP stack. He needed all 4 things for it. Any one on it's would not have been enough.
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