Over the last year, as Bluesky got more popular, conversations about whether Bluesky and ATProto are really ‘decentralised’ have gotten more “popular” as well. These conversations ranged from high-quality, productive back-and-forth articles to people just saying a lot of dumb stuff on the internet (shocker, I know). As time went on, this discourse has grown […]

On Discourse and Decentralisation

The Community Group for #ActivityPub is drafting an open letter calling for respect and collaboration between the people working on the different protocols in the open social web.

I’m signing the letter, and with it, I have some thoughts regarding discourse, decentralisation and why I think this space matters.

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    It’s “open” in the same way that cryptocurrencies are “open”. It doesn’t matter how technically decentralized the power structure is when someone owns more than 99% of the tokens.