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Thank you so much for this post! It was really informative as I’m new here. I have a potentially silly question- are you meant to scroll up or down on the feed here? It seems the opposite of Twitter. (I refuse to call it the other name)

Great explainer! One thing I'd like to question though is the privacy section. You say blocks being public is a "tradeoff that comes along with... open source and decentralized design". It is possible to have private blocks in a FOSS decentralized protocol - I've designed such a private protocol.

I’m sure it’s possible but it’s been my understanding that there’s some technical reasons for this with the AT Protocol structure. But that’s a question for the Bluesky team

Yep it's much, much harder to do. Especially if privacy is not built-in from the beginning as a design constraint. I was in the original bluesky group (even before Jay), and that's why I rejected Jack Dorsey's framing of restricting it to public stuff.