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It makes fair points but the elephant in the room is that the AT Protocol is not decentralized in practise and that goes back to your point about the protocol development model and I think Jack's point about Bluesky developing both the protocol and the major client

Maybe atproto will become decentralized in future but the protocol developer and its main consumer being the same entity is not great for the protocol

Bluesky could breakup Bluesky, split off the client development, and split the client itself into different versions - the enforced moderation issue provides a clean breakpoint. And sponsor development of competing clients

They don't seem to be doing much to encourage decentralization and that is strange
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tf 1y ago

Ok maybe

"Bluesky controls the AT Protocol right now, and Graber is keenly aware that isn’t tenable if it’s going to be something lots of other companies build on over time. She says the plan is to eventually hand over control to a web standards body like the Internet Engineering Task Force. "

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/6/24062837/bluesky-drops-invite-system-begins-federation-at-protocol

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tf 1y ago

Thinking about it this is possibly worse

Enshrining atproto as a standard would help drive out competing protocols

The issues surrounding decentralization are highly political and it's not clear that the IETF are equipped to handle it

This would create an opportunity/vulnerability