bryan newbold

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dweb, cycling, free software, snow, wiki, hardware, big cities, symbolic systems. I love speculating about found objects. Working at https://blueskyweb.xyz/ on atproto (a federated social media protocol). Formerly built https://scholar.archive.org; scientific instrumentation for observational cosmology; open hardware #seattle Personal Site: https://bnewbold.net

bryan newbold 1 year ago

wrote up a reply to @Christine Lemmer-Webber's "How decentralized is Bluesky really" blog post:

Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization | bryan newbold (✈️ vacation/travel through mid-Jan)

This is a reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber's thoughtful (and widely read) "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" blog post. I am so happy and grat...

bryan newbold 1 year ago

I think what many folks really want from "federation" is a situation where no one party has more than 40% (or 10%, or whatever) of the network. That is a powerful and special property! Fediverse has it today, and most networks don't. It is different from adversarial interop though. There are open systems, like email (gmail) and git (github) which have sort of lost this. I still think the interop in those systems is valuable.

bryan newbold 1 year ago

bluesky got more funding, and is working on several sustainable revenue models: subscriptions, domain registration, and payments. work continues on atproto: tooling for independent Lexicon development; more docs/specs and testing for interop; more complete and documented SDKs

Bluesky

Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky

Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like dir...

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