On Revolution.Social this week i talked to Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser. He talks about building on the ATprotocol but without being controlled by the Bluesky company. They run their own moderation, algorithms, identity servers, hosts (PDS), and are building an entire alt tech stack called rsky.
But what's most interesting to the Nostr and Bitcoin community is in this conversation we talk a lot about how to fix the money. We talk about needing to build an alternative financial system which is not owned or controlled by the state or corporations. We talk about the role of mutual aid in social change and building a future society we want to live in. And we talk about Cashu and how we're exploring bringing it in to the ATmosphere (how the they talk about the ATprotocol ecosystem beyond just bluesky).
It was a fascinating conversation, and i really hope that Nostr Bitcoiners take a listen as this is a conversation about permissionless protocols and freedom money which is very different from what we normally hear in bitcoin circles.
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This seems really cool! Excited to listen ๐
Loved this chat. Rudy is awesome. Yep, the nonstarter stuff, especially in silos, can be confusing.
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Thanks for continuing to have these really interesting conversations.... The question came to mind, in the discussion RE alternative PDS systems and community moderation, is this just "Mastodon with extra steps"?
Does AT protocol, even if we're talking about many diverse PDS's like what BlackSky is starting to create, inherently lead towards more centralized systems (and therefore more legal risk) than ActivityPub?
It's hard to square the ambition "we want 1billion+ users" with the idea that these platforms won't fall into the same governance traps as all of the other major social networks of the past 20 years...