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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"

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

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"

alternately, you ditch scale entirely and fully embrace the "peer-to-peer" aspect, where each peer is 100% manually controlling the aggregation of every document to specific peers. very useful, for a specific set of use cases. calling it "social" networking might be a misnomer

probably closer to a chat app

eh... more like DMs, crossed with a wiki