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On Discourse and Decentralisation

The Community Group for #ActivityPub is drafting an open letter calling for respect and collaboration between the people working on the different protocols in the open social web.

I'm signing the letter, and with it, I have some thoughts regarding discourse, decentralisation and why I think this space matters.

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[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

All this rests on the implied assertion that ATProto is part of the open social web.

I don't know the answer to that and I don't really care to find out.

[โ€“] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 18 hours ago

It's "open" in the same way that cryptocurrencies are "open". It doesn't matter how technically decentralized the power structure is when someone owns more than 99% of the tokens.

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