I am thinking out loud in prep for my talk.
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I am thinking out loud in prep for my talk. And I should unpack this in a blogpost because the following observation is a DENSE one.
One thing that really became clear to me is that the topology of power of Bluesky vs the Fediverse does really matter, and id checks makes this *really* clear.
You can put a graph of
Discord -- Bluesky -- The greater ATmosphere -- the Fediverse -- Spritely's tech (esp Brassica Chat)
The power distribution of this stuff is going to matter a lot for regulatory moats
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I am thinking out loud in prep for my talk. And I should unpack this in a blogpost because the following observation is a DENSE one.
One thing that really became clear to me is that the topology of power of Bluesky vs the Fediverse does really matter, and id checks makes this *really* clear.
You can put a graph of
Discord -- Bluesky -- The greater ATmosphere -- the Fediverse -- Spritely's tech (esp Brassica Chat)
The power distribution of this stuff is going to matter a lot for regulatory moats
@cwebber simple the fediverse is free because you can mount a server on an app, the others don't.
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I am thinking out loud in prep for my talk. And I should unpack this in a blogpost because the following observation is a DENSE one.
One thing that really became clear to me is that the topology of power of Bluesky vs the Fediverse does really matter, and id checks makes this *really* clear.
You can put a graph of
Discord -- Bluesky -- The greater ATmosphere -- the Fediverse -- Spritely's tech (esp Brassica Chat)
The power distribution of this stuff is going to matter a lot for regulatory moats
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I am thinking out loud in prep for my talk. And I should unpack this in a blogpost because the following observation is a DENSE one.
One thing that really became clear to me is that the topology of power of Bluesky vs the Fediverse does really matter, and id checks makes this *really* clear.
You can put a graph of
Discord -- Bluesky -- The greater ATmosphere -- the Fediverse -- Spritely's tech (esp Brassica Chat)
The power distribution of this stuff is going to matter a lot for regulatory moats
@cwebber This goes for any institution, no? The bigger/more influent the org, the more it needs to adhere to laws "by default"? For age verification, couldn't governments just force the mastodon developpers to include age verification features? And then it'd be easier to go asking all instances to comply, starting with the big ones
Decentralization just slows this process, but does not stop it. Maybe it's enough, but I guess it depends on the resources said adversary has
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@ahoyboyhoy @cwebber brassica chat is a little demo we made to show chat without servers. it's not something that can be deployed today like xmpp, but we think the design is worth further exploration if we can get resources to dedicate to it. if you're interested in getting into the weeds, you can read about how it works here: https://spritely.institute/news/composing-capability-security-and-conflict-free-replicated-data-types.html
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