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@timbray This is a great analysis, and roughly reflects my own sentiments. At the SWF, we're lending moral support to Free Our Feeds, because we want the ATProto space to be more open and participative than it is now. But we're putting our eggs in the Fediverse basket, because it seems like the better long term bet.

@evan @timbray

I think FOF is actually calling bluesky's bluff.

"you keep saying you'd interoperate with other relays but there just aren't any yet. well now there is."

BS will either go back on their promise, slowly enshittify and lose users to the FOF relay, or be forced by the competition not to enshittify and we all get to see how inefficient and silly their model is long-term if it was actually at all decentralized.

otherwise I just don't understand @pluralistic being involved.

we have been in touch with the FoF folks and are very excited for them to be running alternative infrastructure of all types in the atmosphere! and maybe resources to go further, not just providing exit, but to push forward software/protocol as a "peer" org, improving governance going forward

@bnewbold.net

so then it will be my third option. you did not have a good response to @cwebber's criticism of the BS approach. I want decentralized social to dominate but if your model won, how would a govt or news org ensure that they have unfettered social reach to their followers like they do with a website on the open web today? they'd have to run their own expensive relay?

some accounts are very important but controversial. witness the @mondoweiss server talking about #Gaza.

I think our best response to Christine will be "show not tell". don't think there is any single silver bullet to resolving disputes about content on public networks. can't really imagine an infra operator blocking the content you mention, but if they did, yeah, folks could use alternative infra