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How It Started: Three Phases
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Starting as a centralized platform, Twitter can take steps to open up APIs and provide choices to users, and this can be a path towards restoring trust in the current service. The premise of Bluesky, however, is to work towards a transparent and verifiable system from the bottom up by building a network that is open by default.
Jay Graber • A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol
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The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimate
... See moregetrevue.co • A Native Internet Protocol for Social Media
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There are many projects that have created protocols for decentralizing discourse, including ActivityPub and SSB for social, Matrix and IRC for chat, and RSS for blogging. While each of these are successful in their own right, none of them fully met the goals we had for a network that enables global long-term public conversations at scale.
Jay Graber • A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol
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Eventually, I began coding some rough prototypes for John Michael and Stuart. At that point, we didn’t talk about how it would be a business or even how it would function on a practical, user, or human level. It was really, really utopian.Those days we asked questions like, “How does a person be their best self on the internet?” and “How do you get... See more
thecreativeindependent.com • Charles Broskoski on Self-Discovery That Happens Upon Revisiting Things You’ve Accumulated Over Time
The tools for public conversation should exist outside of private companies as common infrastructure, like the Internet itself. An open and durable decentralized protocol for public conversations can allow users a choice in their experience, creators control over their relationships with their audience, and developers freedom to innovate without pe... See more
Jay Graber • A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol
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Working groups turned to Matrix chat rooms for day-to-day operations.