Julian Oliver on Nostr: This piece from one of the creators of ActivityPub is for me the definitive read on ...

This piece from one of the creators of ActivityPub is for me the definitive read on Bsky & its would-be decentralisation. A long text yes, but well worth the braintime.

Details and their devils, of particular interest is the practical infeasibility of self-hosted ATProto Relays, & also some of the threat modeling around investor heat on any push to re-architect toward true decentralisation.

Key lessons & directions for the Fedi are teased out alongside. Much greatness

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/