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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

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

was just gesturing toward this a few hours ago

yeah. I tried to articulate this a few years ago, because the "decentralization" umbrella is way too broad, and what you get from the design process is a bunch of revealed preferences on civic structure because nobody formalized the language (github.com/pfrazee/info...)

Well written. I grok concerns individuals have of the cost required in freely federated authority, even at tens of dollars a month, and then marvel at the fact that the traditional server hosted networks continue to siphon the very same means from said individuals to the wealthy corporate elite.