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How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? dustycloud.org/blog/how-decent

A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵

dustycloud.orgHow decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

First of all, before I say anything else, my goal here is NOT to be mean to Bluesky's devs. I know there's a lot of fediverse-Bluesky rivalry, but I have enormous respect for Jay Graber and her team and I know they believe in their vision!

This started because I got some very kind encouragement by @bnewbold to write something. I'm trying to be technical in my analysis, not unkind. I hope that can be recognized, really and truly.

@cwebber @bnewbold

Hey, Christine.

I do not like the framing of the difference between ActivityPub and AT Proto as one of technology and not of governance.

I also think there are problems with examining ATProto since it is a proprietary protocol and Bluesky has not made a patent license statement about it.

UPDATE: Changed from questions to statements to make it less confrontational.

@cwebber @bnewbold I hope Bluesky Inc. will make a big donation to the Spritely Institute. You did a huge amount of work.

UPDATE: a lot of people seem to think I'm calling my friend Christine a sellout here. There are few if any people in the world whose integrity and ethics I respect more than Christine's. I apologize that my wording made it seem otherwise.

@cwebber omg, I skipped all the way to the end and OBVIOUSLY you look at this situation from every conceivable angle, including governance, because it wouldn't be a Christine Lemmer-Webber post without it.

I appreciate the depth of analysis. I do still think that Bluesky should make a donation to Spritely if @bnewbold asked you to make a 25-page report, though.

@evan @cwebber @bnewbold they said the big novelty check is in the mail