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felix stalder

#Bluesky nominally has the capacity to be decentralized, in practice, it's fully centralized. What led @vortex to call it "federation washing".

But what about #blacksky? Is this a working example of #decentralization of Bluesky?

On the level of technical infrastructure, it's a service built on top of Bluesky, on a social level, it's clearly distinct (different feeds, moderation, social user basis).

In terms of building a space of a large minority community, it seems to have succeeded where Mastodon failed so far,. And it might even be large enough to decentralize the infrastructure as well.

privacy.thenexus.today/decentr

The Nexus Of Privacy · "Decentralization" and erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmospherePart 3 of Bluesky, the ATmosphere, and the fediverses
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Calixthe

Can we start by ditching the techno fascists? Like Chris Best[Substack], Zuckerberg[Meta], Bezos[Amazon], Jack Dorsey[Cash App], PayPal, Venmo, Thiel[Stripe], Spotify, etc? Plus Walmart, Target, etc? Can we also call out anti-Blackness www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-S... ? #BlackSky #USPol

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:flfa7b6kgjqp3bbh223tmpjk/post/3lkwgbp5c2c22

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The Nexus of Privacy

if not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere

privacy.thenexus.today/if-not-

Mutual aid. Organizing. Sharing, contextualizing, and making meaning of news and health information to counter propaganda and information overload. The use cases for alternative social networks – not controlled by techbro white supremacist CEO's working with their cronies in authoritarian governments – practically write themselves in today's world. And with so many talented social scientists, designers, systems thinkers, and developers directly impacted by DOGE, MAGA, et al, there are a lot of people with the right skills for these new networks to make rapid progress.

The good news is there's a lot of promising work happening in the decentralized social media ecosystems known as the fediverses ("federated universes") and the ATmosphere (a fediverse built on Bluesky's AT protocol), including DAIR-tube, Blacksky, the #FreeFediverse, and more.

Still, as promising as these efforts are, there's still a long ways to go.

The Nexus Of Privacy · If not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next (DRAFT)Draft! Feedback welcome!
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