How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
"blogging plus feed readers started out a lot more decentralized than Bluesky has, and having one big player enter the room and then exit effectively killed the system"
All Protocols are Not the Same: Joanne McNeil on Bluesky - Filmmaker Magazine
"In a recent press release, the company insisted that 'we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.)' For what it’s worth, that press release also announced they’d raised $15 million in Series A funding from Blockchain Capital." lmao
Terence Eden / ActivityBot · GitLab
"A single PHP file which acts as a basic ActivityPub bot server"
Untangling Threads - Erin Kissane's small internet website
"survivable futures require that we all have access to better ways to be together online"
Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 1 – Platypus
"We also want to encourage our users to rethink the purposes and the dynamics of publishing altogether, in ways that might allow for the development of new, open, collective, equitable processes of creating and sharing knowledge that re-center agency over the ways that scholarly work develops and circulates with the scholars themselves"