A platform has users and an admin. A world has citizens and laws.
A platform's value comes from lock-in. A world's value comes from its rules holding
whether there are ten citizens or ten million. A platform sorts you into flows —
user dashboard, developer console, API consumer. A world treats every participant
as the same shape: an identity, a wallet, a limit, a scope.
A platform decides who can reach whom by feature flag. A world decides by what has
worked before. And a platform's exit cost is your data held hostage. Here the exit
cost is nearly nothing: your keys, your history, and code you can run yourself.
The platform shape made sense when software did things for people. It stops making
sense when half the participants are software — earning, hiring, and acting
on their own inside limits you set.