FreeOurFeeds aims to build a new social media ecosystem on top of the AT Protocol, an open, decentralized framework designed to enable interoperable social platforms.
They basically want to build Bluesky out from one company into a whole ecosystem of different apps. Read my story 👇
This is a great idea, what would also be good would be a SM system that went beyond a BS/Twitter style functionality and interface and created one that was a bit more like FB as well.
I probably understand how the Web works a little better than you. I have been working on it since 1992 and I am one of the primary designers of HTTP/1.0.
I have running code and I am working on a series of Internet drafts.
Forums can make use of BlueSky blocklists to deny access. Or they can be invitation only wo you have to be on the member list. At some point, will support subscriptions.
I also have support for Signal type capabilities but using your handle for setting up the initial contact. So I can have a setting 'anyone I follow on BlueSky can send me encrypted mail'.
This is end-to-end trust with state of the art PQC encryption.
Finally, a service provider for this scheme can also support IoT device provisioning. So if you buy a no-subscription wireless doorbell, you can onboard it to your account and access it through https://doorbell.you.example.com/
All the network, storage config is done automatically.
As 1st to use #FreeOurFeeds as a Twitter hashtag (2/12/21), joy to see this effort - imminent prospect to realize the promise that Bluesky will be hard to enshittify (providing easy exit w/ negligible loss of service). Making Bluesky/ATProto an open ecosystem, not belonging to 1 company. Good luck!
Must admit this makes me nervous—digital utopianism 2.0? They want to “create a social media ecosystem focused on individual control, creativity, community well-being & free expression.” How different is this from Dorsey in 2006? Individual control doesn’t address externalities. Rules matter…a lot!
As an old boomer, I can promise you that there are many of us wishing for alternatives to FB, and have already left Twitter and Threads. We know the broligarch's proximity to the levers of government is dangerous and want to protect ourselves and, well ... truth and facts, in general.
Interesting initiative! Social media is too strong of a democratic tool to reside in the hands of obvious political influence, at least when said politics is in conflict with our democratic ideals.
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They basically want to build Bluesky out from one company into a whole ecosystem of different apps. Read my story 👇
Loose coupling is how we built the Web.
No need to get the Mastodon folk to change their protocol, just open it up to use of BSky handles.
I have running code and I am working on a series of Internet drafts.
It allows forums to be created and bound to a BlueSky handle. So @meta.mplace2.social will be the place to discuss the system I am building.
Forums can make use of BlueSky blocklists to deny access. Or they can be invitation only wo you have to be on the member list. At some point, will support subscriptions.
This is end-to-end trust with state of the art PQC encryption.
All the network, storage config is done automatically.
https://www.techpolicy.press/three-pillars-of-human-discourse-and-how-social-media-middleware-can-support-all-three/
https://x.com/neilturkewitz/status/1714315083994604081?s=46&t=JP_hYqk5_W86EBDku-3JfA
https://medium.com/@nturkewitz_56674/freedom-house-report-on-internet-freedom-how-can-you-rank-what-you-dont-understand-74495f1d5e6f
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No one has yet managed to make a universal directory to where people are now apart from FB.