Blaine Cook ( @blaine ) ( https://bsky.app/profile/blaine.bsky.social ) top priorities:

• moderation tools
• fixing the relay problem
• lexicons
• plus A LOT more

(This was a ATproto specific answer.)

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Boris Mann ( @boris ) recommended the book:

Rainbows End
by Vernor Vinge

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Blaine Cook ( @blaine ) ( https://bsky.app/profile/blaine.bsky.social ) mentioned that the new Raspberry Pi 5 has the same computing power as Twitter when it had 5 million users.

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com ) on stage now.

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

The 3 big efforts to try to re-decentralize the Web and Internet:

• blockchains <--- most money went here
• P2P
• federation

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

P2P has a lot problems.

For example — Creating a good comment section is extremely difficult if not impossible, with P2P

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

ActivityPump got renamed to ActivityPub — that was a good rename

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

Social-Networks are very large public spaces.

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

The worst thing we (Bluesky) did to people was request them to understand DNS.

For example — one time we had to explain DNS to Flavor Fav.

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

"The company is a future adversary."

We tried to build for that.

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

"What if we (Bluesky) did P2P with servers — I'll call that server-to-server."

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

Bluesky / ATProto lexicon almost was RDF — and would have been if Paul had more time.

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

Bluesky didn't use ActivityPub for 2 reasons —

№1:

Because of the identity issue.

Once you make a choice (of server) you are locked in.

You cannot migrate freely.

(Current Fediverse migration not good enough.)

№2:

The culture on the Fediverse at the time.

There was a culture on the Fediverse of being hostile towards global aggregators.

( @reiver note: AFAICT, this is a very small minority of hyper hostile individuals.)

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

Mentioned MLS (Messaging Layer Security).

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

Bluesky practical decentralization:

• cost reduction — cheaper relays
• AppView / self-hosted Bluesky — partial sync based on follow graph — can we reach $100 per month — build smarter sync engine — indiesky
• improve user-experience
• PLC governance — moving to separate legal entity

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Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

There is a GitHub discussion about ATProto Call For Developer Projects

Call for Developer Projects · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #3049

Call for Developer Projects

GitHub (github.com)

Stuff for others to work on.

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Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me ) on stage.

Presenting about Smoke Signal ( https://smokesignal.events/ ).

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Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me

"On Facebook you are the product and the prey."

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Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me

Mentioned article:
https://www.anildash.com//2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

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Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me

ActivityPub and Mastodon are effectively the same thing to most people.

( @reiver note: this seems similar to the phrase "the Mastodon in the room".)

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