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  "publishedAt": "2024-09-22T02:15:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Sigh.\n\nI saw a chain of posts by [Evan][1] of thoughts he had on BlueSky. I was wondering how soon it'd take\nfor it to make it to BlueSky. It's _very_ interesting to see how replies on BlueSky and in the\nFediverse both work to comfort whomever posts on top. For example, and I'm not going to link to\neither, on BlueSky, folks expressed disappointment in Evan's seemingly beratement of BlueSky's\nevolving around ATProto. On Mastodon, folks felt more comfortable expressing their support for what\nthey saw as a very vibrant future with ActivityPub. It was rare (if not non-present) to see any\ncross support of either protocol in each space. This is something that I'm growing more fearful of\nbecause it's the beginning of fuel for something that I _do not want_ as someone who enjoys using\nthe Internet despite loathing how it was created and turned against people.\n\nMy fear is that we will _refuse_ to avoid the mistakes of the Web 2.0 era and work to develop\nnetworks and systems that are evolving to be inherently incapable of communicating with one another.\nNot because of technical difficulty but because the authors and architects of these spaces _loathe_\none another. There's folks who remember how Twitter began preventing you from seeing the previews of\nInstagram posts natively on their platform — now we have Instagram being the sign-in mechanism\nto the Twitter alternative/clone. This is expected for two companies warring for the attention spans\nof millions. This is not the kind of behavior I'd want to see develop in a space that aims to call\nitself \"for people\" or it being of the \"open Web\".\n\nThis post is a short one asking folks to do what GNOME and KDE are doing: learn from each other and\nwork to help each other grow. Collectively, we can make a better world — no one singular\nsolution will bring that and it's _not_ possible for it to do so: we need to shake the logics of\nneoliberalism if we want this to work. We _have_ to remember that we're building things that\neffectively create _spectales_: despite people existing behind them, they will _never_ encompass the\nbreadth of our identities, our experiences, our lives — as much as capitalism wants us to\nbelieve in the idea of the digitizing of one's self.\n\n[1]: https://evanp.me/",
  "title": "Protocol Bickering is Going to Wreck the Open Web"
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