Cory Doctorow on Nostr: There is nothing unusual, in other words, about hacking freedom into something that ...
There is nothing unusual, in other words, about hacking freedom into something that is proprietary or just insufficiently free. That's totally normal. It's how we got almost everything great about computers.
Mastodon's progenitors should be praised for ensuring their creation was born free - but the fact that Bluesky isn't free enough is no reason to turn our back on it.
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