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The governments go where the people are. If they post on their own sites it’s the equivalent of “on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a
by arjie 2mo ago
The governments go where the people are. If they post on their own sites it’s the equivalent of “on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’”.
But government information should definitely be first source on their site with federation elsewhere.
- andrepd 2mo agoThe problem is not governments or people posting there. The problem is platforms/utilities not being treated as such.
- phforms 2mo agoYeah, "first source" is the key here. The information should be available openly and independently of any 3rd-party platform. In a broader sense, I believe that every person who publishes on the internet should have a standard way to keep their profile data (accounts, posts, etc.) in a secure, user-owned vault that is independent of any company or institution and platforms should have to pull data from that place (in a restricted, user-controlled way) instead of from their own servers. Platforms should be exchangeable, profiles should be entirely user-owned. But of course, this is just a dream and hard to realise technically and economically (incentive-wise) with our current systems. Decentralised protocols are a step in this direction, but unfortunately still too technical/complicated for most people to really "own" or host their data themselves.
- arjie 2mo agoATProto attempted to do this with their PDS based structure but it isn’t fully decentralized yet. The vision is similar to what you describe though.
- pfraze 2mo agoThats entirely how atproto works now!
- inigyou 2mo agoExcept for the part where bluesky maintains a central registry and also the part where the protocol is really complicated with its authenticity stuff.
- pfraze 2mo agohttps://atproto.com/blog/plc-directory-org https://atproto.com/blog/plc-directory-org > As the next step of maturing governance of the PLC identity system, Bluesky Social PBC is supporting the creation of an independent organization to operate the directory.
- inigyou 2mo agosomeone related to bluesky maintains a central registry* If the US government sanctions you, your PLC will get deleted. Only the US government will have this power.
- pfraze 2mo agoPLC's board composition and country of residence are designed to shield from that. At best it will only ever be as effective at this as ICANN, which is roughly our target.