Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Let’s compare the possible failure modes of various open social protocols: ActivityPub/Mastodon ATProto/Bluesky Farcaster/Warpcast Some scenarios I’d like to consider: Can my identity be taken away? Can my audience be taken away? Can my ability to extend it and build on the protocol be taken away? Some specific failure modes I’m concerned about: What happens when the most popular app or instance becomes malicious? Is there something the maintainer can do that would prompt me to abandon ...| shazow.net
Who should decide what’s true online?| newpublic.substack.com
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this weird-assed social network.| anderegg.ca
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.| fed.brid.gy
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.| NOEMA
Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.| Bluesky
I've decided to write down some of the tips & tricks that I often give to friends when I send them an invite code, or the advice and answers that I sometimes give to people that I find in some feed asking about things. This of course got much longer than I planned 😅| mackuba.eu
Bluesky is building a protocol for public conversation that can make social networks work more like email, blogs, or phone numbers — the open systems that power the rest of our online lives.| Bluesky
Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.| Bluesky