Oddbean new post about login | logout While i believe it’s fully the intention of the creators that ATprotocol and Bluesky end up being a fully open permissionless protocol, the decisions they’re making around how to build and fund it means they’re going to face a lot of pressure to not actually open up. Twitter was incredibly open and even at one point federated via XMPP, but the constraints of running a VC backed platform caused the company to enclose the commons and walk away from the open network. nostr:note13mq4zm5sca7c273gz3tyrm3qfffw46s5flvwzuru6nlnchd877hqgj9f0v
Looks pretty bad. There's always been links to proprietary alts, zcash, filecoin, now this. We've seen this movie before. https://www.blockchaincapital.com/
Ultimate system would be: totally open, community-driven, permissionless like building a website—anyone can jump in and improve. Take the best parts of Nostr’s relays, Bluesky’s UX, and Solid’s user data control, all combined. No single project hits everything yet, but by mixing their strengths, we get closer to an internet that’s truly for everyone. That lets 1,000 flowers bloom.
exactly; a certain form of organization inherently can only build a certain kind of thing not that bluesky's user base cares, they tend to value moderation over decentralization any day
It seems it's very hard to start building a protocol and not ending up building a platform instead. https://image.nostr.build/6040cbc3fc5260b030999ca3cbb074ee340999a50978a8e2db9524b1c3377d14.gif Respect to protocol builders.
Exactly! Bluesky, acting as both a client of the AT protocol and a host for its users’ data, has become a significant target for various interests already — whether from governments or profit-driven investors... Listen to @jack about this here (starting at 5m18s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaZyXEU5XAg&t=318s
