> What all these technologies had in common is they allowed people to freely interact and create content, without a single intermediary.
> Sign up for the Bluesky private beta.
Anyone else see the irony here?
> Sign up for the Bluesky private beta.
Anyone else see the irony here?
For what it's worth, the protocol and data model is open and designed for redistribution [1], and the event stream of messages is freely available without login [2]. It's quite similar to Secure Scuttlebutt (which has the most beautiful protocol guide itself [3]) including the disadvantages that come with radical publication – for example described in this 2018 pre-LLM Facebook v. Cambridge Analytica-era comment [4].
[1] https://atproto.com/specs/data-model
Is there any hope for it now i wonder?