Re: How decentralized is Bluesky really?

+1 on Christine's excellent article. I particularly enjoyed the balanced
perspective on adoption issues vs. intellectual purity.

Adrian

On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 11:29 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> I know a number of us overlap with interests in the social web tech
> community. Christine Webber, a long-time CCG member and the lead
> editor and author of the W3C ActivityPub standard[1], which is the
> basis for a number of Fediverse social networking services such as
> Mastodon and Threads, has written an interesting piece about
> decentralization and BlueSky:
>
> https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
>
> Of particular interest to this community is what Christine says around
> DIDs and what might be required to make them decentralized beyond what
> BlueSky is doing. There are a number of other interesting observations
> around the various definitions of "decentralization", DNS, petname
> systems, account portability, object capabilities, and scaling
> characteristics of decentralized protocols that are of interest to
> this community as well. It's a good prelude to some work that is
> currently going in the community and what is to come in 2025.
>
> It's a long read, but a good one, and is filled with thought provoking
> observations, as we've come to expect from Christine.
>
> -- manu
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
>
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