Christine Lemmer-WebberFeb 24

I am thinking out loud in prep for my talk. And I should unpack this in a blogpost because the following observation is a DENSE one.

One thing that really became clear to me is that the topology of power of Bluesky vs the Fediverse does really matter, and id checks makes this *really* clear.

You can put a graph of

Discord -- Bluesky -- The greater ATmosphere -- the Fediverse -- Spritely's tech (esp Brassica Chat)

The power distribution of this stuff is going to matter a lot for regulatory moats

Show threadÉmilio Gonzalez

@cwebber This goes for any institution, no? The bigger/more influent the org, the more it needs to adhere to laws "by default"? For age verification, couldn't governments just force the mastodon developpers to include age verification features? And then it'd be easier to go asking all instances to comply, starting with the big ones

Decentralization just slows this process, but does not stop it. Maybe it's enough, but I guess it depends on the resources said adversary has

Feb 24 at 4:56amWeb