@cwebber has a great thread going about the ways the Bluesky can't ever truly be decentralized in any meaningful fashion.

From what I have read about the protocol, I suspected that this was true, and I had a vision in my head of what it would be like if BS was to take off.

This post: https://social.coop/@cwebber/113653422334017644

Says it very well. Bsky will create a pantheon. A very small number of full participants with operational budgets the size of cities, a much larger number of entirely dependent serfs.

Mastodon and the wider activitypub based fediverse isn't perfect, but Christine and the rest of the folks who wrote the activitypub standard created something that could actually support fully distributed operation (where each user can be a full particpant with full control over their experience), as opposed to bsky (which appears to be designed to pay lipservice to user freedom, while actually enforcing a world in which users only have the freedom to choose which fuedal lord they're pledged to.)

Would have been working on a commission but my brain had an idea and fixated on it and I had to get it out. It's a Carl Sagan quote in a spiral (new skill acquired: drawing a two point spiral with a compass!).

Need to dot the black with stars, then it's done, but not yet. Going to take a break and go for a walk first. :)

See the alt text for the quote.

Just wrote a (long overdue) status update post about the OpenGL and Linux development work for Uru, for those who are curious about that sort of thing: https://dpogue.ca/articles/plglpipeline-2023.html

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