This is an interesting interview with Dorsey in which he spills the 🫖 on his departure from Bluesky, which, for those who were on it early, was clearly a response to some moderation kerfuffles and ref-working early on.
Decentralized protocols are largely not subject to ref-working, for better or worse (forthcoming article on this!). That is true. But there are some coherence issues...
Algorithmic feed curation -which in an age of middleware could be determined through a user selecting from a market (Bluesky currently offers this!)- is something he finds enjoyable on Twitter, but also weightings in a centralized algorithmic feed are “censorship”. (The word has no meaning anymore)
An algorithmic curated feed is always going to pick winners and losers via rankings, and people will optimize their content to game it — there’s no neutral.
@renee.diresta It surprises me that Mr. Dorsey doesn't mention the Fediverse at all, given that it responds to his concerns about centralised social media and has a hundred times as many users as Nostr.
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