Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
So I watched Jay's interview at SXSW. First off, great quote, it reminds me a lot of Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message": "I think that society starts to reflect the structure of its dominant form of communication...and so you need communications infrastructure that is democratic and gives people a choice, lets people intervene and change it to suit their own needs and preferences. And so building open networks, I think, is very critical to the problems we face in the world. If you have an open network, then you have a form of communication that people can modify and make their own." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7OwcXCE5Rg
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Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
But I think the claim that they've built "portable identity" rings a bit hollow. Currently >99% of the network uses did:plc (Public Ledger of Credentials) which is their internal, permissioned blockchain, where they own all the user keys. I assume that eventually, they will open this up and let the users' rotate their keys, but the training wheels are still on at this point.
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zilla
@pris
Sure, it's a bit hollow, but it invites non-technical people from various social classes to be aware and participate in the conversation in a nonpartisan way. I generally believe Bluesky has done a great job pioneering this and building a community around it in a low stakes way (not owning crypto). This way, we can all get excited and build a decentralized future together instead of in isolation (web3 vs web2). Will they have longevity? We'll see.
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