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this is honestly pretty much what atproto is "Can We Get More Decentralised Than The Fediverse?" #atproto

every one of these writeups about How We're Gonna Make Decentralization Something Everybody Will Care About reads like the author's primary interest is fantasy worldbuilding

the real federation was the friends we made along the way

that’s the plot of Star Trek I think

no yeah, Bluesky's got the right idea, it's all these other writeups I see that start from a place like "Alice wants to communicate with Bob, so she spends an afternoon doing research into which Mastodon instance is most closely aligned with her interests"

I got assigned a server when I signed up, a server which had nothing to do with any of my interests. When I was able to switch, the process was, quite frankly, hellish and I lost a bunch of stuff (not that I had much). Then there was the copy/paste to follow somebody on a different server. Ugh.

ah yeah def. we had a design principle from the start (due to many past failures) which was: no steps backward

I do really like that we did SSB though, it was the most pure rendition of anarchist philosophy into a technical system there the hard principle was *zero external authorities* and while some of the difficulties around coordination were predictable, the results were still interesting