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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

eh I figure the downstream effects matter to everyone at some point (otherwise wtf am I doing)

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 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

all of these decentralized networks are, knowingly or not, an exercise in civic philosophy

Paul are you saying posting on here is a form a praxis then? (Pls dont ban me)

was just gesturing toward this a few hours ago

always found ssb too client-centric but I do still think there's value in "a social network you can connect with by rsyncing to a flash drive"

yeah that's ultimately what causes any pure p2p social network to fail, social apps are meant to be mass scale and nobody's solved federated queries, so you need aggregators which pre-index