Bluesky opened for beta. Timing seems pointedly adversarial vis-à-vis twitter? Haven’t really followed this subplot. What’s going on with it? Makes Musk and Dorsey seem vaguely frenemyish
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It's a decentralized protocol. It was funded by Twitter but Twitter has no ownership stake.
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Yea, I know, but I wonder how the control works though. Someone is hosting, pushing code, voting in some control way, etc.
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Wrong frame. It will be something like an open source repo and tools for anyone to run a “node” or something
Yes and you also have the ability to tune your feeds RSS everything
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Ah okay. If the point is to make a kind of HTTP-esque layer, still seems like there will be some body of general agreement (even if soft power only) that will influence the repo. It's interesting how this often centralizea, a la Python / Guido, etc.
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