How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really?

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With a proper conceptual model, a good enough domain design for "commons-driven adaptive adhocracy" we can drill down to what protocols and architecture support best match.

Regardless of under-the-hood tech, I hope we enter an era of app-free computing, where services choreograph into dynamic social experiences tailored to satisfy needs and adaptive to the context of the social interactions that take place between people.

And thriving service ecosystems.

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@smallcircles @teledyn @bhaugen @cwebber

i disagree.
git is a good example and nom as well.

git the tool and npm the tool was enough to create enormous open source supply chains, a.k.a dependency trees

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@smallcircles @teledyn @bhaugen @cwebber yes. traditional biz practices are not a match at all. agree.

i do think we need a tool like git for "github issues" to solve this.

basically taking inspiration from GANTT charts or PERT charts (kinda the same)

a command line tool, peer to peer, where peer add their payment address rather than email address to the confit and in sync with git commits or rather guiding the work and by version controlled recording it, allowing payments to dependency trees

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@serapath @teledyn @bhaugen @cwebber

Sure. But I was more holistically referring to all the processes and people involved throughout the free software development lifecycle and within its larger environment, and how then deliverables come about. Then git is but one of many tools and practices in the supply chain that allowed for this robust organization structures to emerge.

Christine Lemmer-Webber

@steve yeah I'm well aware that it's not a *pure* actor model system, I have implemented multiple of those

It's still more of an actor model system than most things and that's still one of AP's misunderstood strengths

And re: behavior in AP, it can modify its own internal state and you can implement AP using an actor model system that way, even if the spec doesn't specify "you must modify your own internal state"

Christine Lemmer-Webber

@Weatherwax I actually strongly agree with that; our focus in Spritely is on "secure collaboration" and intentional cooperation for individuals and communities

Evan Prodromou

@cwebber @bnewbold I do think if someone at a commercial startup asks the director of a nonprofit to write a 24-page report including extensive technical research, they should help offset that work.

But Christine assured me that it's not the case; the level of effort was not requested and is entirely up to her. She's a grown woman, a professional, and knows how to allocate her own time.

Evan Prodromou

@cwebber @bnewbold I will leave it up to Brian to decide what Bluesky wants to do to support Christine's work.

For the rest of us who appreciate this and other research she does, I highly recommend making a contribution to the Spritely Institute.

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bryan newbold

@cwebber I've read the whole blog post now, and it is solid! sheds light, good framing, gets to the good stuff.

thank you / congrats!

planning to reply in longer form soon

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@serapath @teledyn @bhaugen @cwebber

Yes, I think indeed git or git-like revision control mechanism can be good solution technologies, candidate for lower-level role in many a robust social stack people stash together.