I think what many folks really want from "federation" is a situation where no one party has more than 40% (or 10%, or whatever) of the network.That is a powerful and special property! Fediverse has it today, and most networks don't.It is different from adversarial interop though. There are open systems, like email (gmail) and git (github) which have sort of lost this. I still think the interop in those systems is valuable.

not sure how much it will help, but despite the word "blockchain" appearing in the blog post, want to re-iterate:> This does not change the fact that the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.).

ah! @arcanicanis

@bnewbold yeah I like that. Though as long as the algorithms are opt-in and composable, it’s all good really. I just don’t want any surprises in the ordering of my feed, covertly introduced by obfuscated algorithms.Even a fairly magical sorting mechanism is fine as long as I get to explicitly flip the switch and mindfully observe its impact.Everything works differently when the user is transparently included in the entire loop. I could happily A/B-day test my enjoyment of different configs.