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Free Our Feeds! What is it! @freeourfeeds.com F.O.F. is an independent group with the goal of running THIS👇 social network totally outside of Bluesky. It's not us. It's a fully independent version of the network. All the same users and posts. Running cooperatively with us and others.

📢 This is the big goal of Bluesky! 📢 Social networks should not be owned by own company! They should be a shared commons! Nobody should have sole power over them.

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Why does it matter? When I finally lose it and start wearing a shoe for a hat, and start demanding users wear shoehats too, and I instant ban for anyone not wearing a shoehat of course -- Orgs like Free Our Feeds will be able to keep the network going independently

So independent parallel networks operate as checks and balances? I see how that works. It’s basic, fascinating, and fundamental at the same time. I haven’t explored the beyond yet. I like it here thanks to you and Jay.

Doesn't this also work negatively as well though? If it's "all the same users and posts" then doesn't that entirely destroy moderation? Bluesky may have anti hate speech policies, but another instance could allow full on Nazis, and we'd all be swimming in the same ocean?

No, because your subscribed moderation can just hide the post for the people subscribed to it. Currently everyone is hard coded to be subscribed to Bluesky Moderation, but in the future you could subscribe to any moderation service that fits you and your needs.

What's the deal with appviews and clients? Let's say Bluesky PBC becomes shoehattered, and let's also say FOF and other organizations have set up alternative infrastructure. Bluesky PBC still controls the Bluesky appview, censoring dissidents. at proto and other appview live on, but Bluesky is dead.

As it stands, it seems one appview=one client. Is the intention that the client should be able to handle multiple appviews? Or is the intention moreso that each lexicon has a reference appview implementation, and anyone can host an interoperable instance? If the latter, how is the client expected to

Important questions first: What kind of shoe? Preferred size and color? Just want to be prepared. (Fun aside, I am glad that you are preparing for the day you may decide you actually want to sh*t all over the playground the way certain people have done/are planning to do.)

Genuine question, is there not still a risk that even a non-profit org like Free Our Feeds could still get hijacked by shoehatters? If so, does that put the whole project at risk of being overtaken to advance shoehat goals?

We've designed the network so as many orgs as are interested can operate it. I tend to think of it like term limits. Every org corrupts eventually. That's why we make leadership dynamic

I always say "like email" - because everyone understands that no one "owns email" - you can get email from a variety of different providers or even run your own email server if you want to.

I think that recent events have made it all the more clear - it's important that we take what we have here, scatter all around the world, yet remain in touch using the protocol. Easy to affect one data repository or AppView; near impossible with a world-wide web of them.