A meta-proposal for Twitter's bluesky project by Jad Esber, Boaz Sender, Ethan Zuckerman, Crystal Lee, Nana Nwachukwu, Oumou Ly, Peter Suber, Primavera De Filippi, Sahar Massachi, Samuel Klein, Tom Zick :: SSRN
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Members of the Berkman Klein community, representing academics, activists, lawyers and technologists, came together to discuss the bluesky project, Twitter's pr

Over the course of the last month, members of the Berkman Klein community, representing academics, activists, lawyers and technologists, came together to discuss the Twitter BlueSky project. The discussions culminated in this “meta-proposal” for the BlueSky team and community, which presents suggestions on how to go about considering proposals and building out BlueSky.

  • @haloOP
    4•3 years ago

    Obligatory XKCD

    I like the publicity this gives to fediverse. I do not think ignoring existing protocols right from the start inspires hope in as much as Twitter and Harvard do not explicitly mention existing options. I hope I am wrong in the long run.

    • @ufrafecy
      2•3 years ago

      deleted by creator

      • @haloOP
        2•3 years ago

        I agree. It is hard to see how a centralized powerful entity would cede that power to a decentralized system if their aim is not to turn decentralized communities into name-only but centralized in practice.