Re: How decentralized is Bluesky really?

Another +1. Christine did indeed provide a very balanced and realistic assessment. I have met with the Bluesky team and am convinced they are trying to do the right thing while also dealing with commercial realities. Especially with 1M+ now joining every day.

I suspect it is the greatest social media migration in history.

BTW, I’m @drummondreed.bsky.social if anyone wants to connect there (I no longer use the service-that-shall-not-be-named-and-never-should-have-been-renamed).

=Drummond

From: Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com>
Date: Saturday, November 30, 2024 at 12:40 PM
To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
Cc: W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
Subject: 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<mailto: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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