This is the first time I'm seeing a way to host a full Bluesky network, I think. It seems like a big step towards full federation beyond appviews and personal data servers.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"But I have faith (for now) because they have people I know from when they worked on secure-ssb and dat protcols, which are truly decentralized but never took off for other reasons."

The modern corporation is precisely defined as a structure of ownership perpendicular to ethics, one of the prime reasons for this is to progressively nullify this specific category of "there are good people in the room" defenses against extreme unsustainable extraction of profit at catastrophic consequences for everybody but shareholders.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes, this is the strongest argument against it and the biggest flaw. They keep saying in interviews that they are treating their future selves as adversaries and they do open source most everything but I would be a lot happier if the protocol development was spun off into a separate org from the for profit service. If it dies, this will be what killed it. But I hope they make it (by it I mean the tools for everyone else to make the ecosystem).