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Yeah, "first source" is the key here. The information should be available openly and independently of any 3rd-party platform. In a broader sense, I believe tha
by phforms 21d ago
Yeah, "first source" is the key here. The information should be available openly and independently of any 3rd-party platform.
In a broader sense, I believe that every person who publishes on the internet should have a standard way to keep their profile data (accounts, posts, etc.) in a secure, user-owned vault that is independent of any company or institution and platforms should have to pull data from that place (in a restricted, user-controlled way) instead of from their own servers. Platforms should be exchangeable, profiles should be entirely user-owned. But of course, this is just a dream and hard to realise technically and economically (incentive-wise) with our current systems. Decentralised protocols are a step in this direction, but unfortunately still too technical/complicated for most people to really "own" or host their data themselves.
- arjie 21d agoATProto attempted to do this with their PDS based structure but it isn’t fully decentralized yet. The vision is similar to what you describe though.
- pfraze 21d agoThats entirely how atproto works now!
- inigyou 21d agoExcept for the part where bluesky maintains a central registry and also the part where the protocol is really complicated with its authenticity stuff.
- pfraze 20d agohttps://atproto.com/blog/plc-directory-org https://atproto.com/blog/plc-directory-org > As the next step of maturing governance of the PLC identity system, Bluesky Social PBC is supporting the creation of an independent organization to operate the directory.
- inigyou 20d agosomeone related to bluesky maintains a central registry* If the US government sanctions you, your PLC will get deleted. Only the US government will have this power.
- pfraze 20d agoPLC's board composition and country of residence are designed to shield from that. At best it will only ever be as effective at this as ICANN, which is roughly our target.