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Yes, it’s interesting but there is no way the instantiation of the protocol (Bluesky) remains free of investor influences. It would require a great deal of capi
by isodev 1y ago
Yes, it’s interesting but there is no way the instantiation of the protocol (Bluesky) remains free of investor influences. It would require a great deal of capital for anyone to recreate the “network” in such an eventuality. So yes, it’s cool but not really Open.
- pessimizer 1y agoThey took VC a long time ago.
- verdverm 1y agofor clarity, Bluesky is an app and ATProtocol is an Open Social fabric they built along with it and what Bluesky is built on top of In the long-term, ATProtocol will be separated from Bluesky the company and end up as a standards and in some shared governance structure
- BigTuna 1y agoThere are already working alternate implementations of every protocol component.
- isodev 1y agoSo what, the governance is not open and what good is a perfectly written engineering spec without the actual place where people hang out? It’s just a lot of tech jargon masking yet-another “let’s make someone very rich” scheme.
- danabramov 1y agoThey’re actually making first steps to bring it to IETF: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf You can be as cynical as you like but I actually tried hard to avoid tech jargon in the article. I’d appreciate you giving it a read — happy to answer questions or discuss specific concerns.