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Yes, the Blacksky migration was impressive. It still did not change the overall percentage distribution numbers very much. It seems like proponents of AT Protocol should welcome criticism of too much dominance of Bluesky PBC and support more independent Blacksky type efforts.
Why, if Bluesky is actually serious about wanting AT Protocol to be decentralized, is there not more overt support for moving the numbers in a truly meaningful way.
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Yes, that would be nice.
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The problem is a matter of scale. There is no way for 99% of users to "simply" move anywhere.
Appreciate the link. These kinds of ground truth analytics are important for framing the discussion and establishing objectives for the future.
The issue is the degree of centralization because that dictates the power of the dominant player to assert control. This issue, as you point out, is also a concern, to a lesser, but still very significant extent, for the ActivityPub Fediverse.
As proponents of open distributed systems we should be concerned about concentrations of technology, power and the potential to assert outsized influence wherever they occur in open networks.
Not erasing Blacksky's work at all. It is to be highly commended and holds enormous promise for spearheading real independent instances on AT Protocol.
Hope you are right and AT Protocol is on a real path to statistically relevant decentralization.
But, to say that discussion of the present reality is not warranted, only serves to undermine these efforts. The objective can only be understood in relation to a factual assessment of the current state of the network.
This is fine. Open protocols are inherently agnostic. The independent efforts on AT Protocol are to be commended, and it may be that AT Protocol has some inherent advantages over ActivityPub. Hopefully this is not interpreted as an attempt to stifle discussion of the current overwhelming dominance of a single US corporation on AT Protocol, making it at this time for all intents a purposes a defacto highly centralized network.
Former star Washington Post reporter Philip Bump @pbump has written an important piece that should be read by everyone involved with or engaging with US media and/or social media today, particularly journalists.
The Power We Use And The Power We Give >>> https://www.pbump.net/o/the-power-we-use-and-the-power-we-give/
In it Philip discusses his reasons for using his writing for 'building power' for good institutions and not 'giving power' to bad ones.
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Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko @Gargron discussing the Bluesky Mississippi mishegaas:
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115079973776525398
Great exchanges of perspectives. Gets into the fundamental differences in both technology and philosophy between the two social media networks.