Everyone who distrusted Free Our Feeds was 100% right but in a more hilarious way than anyone anticipated: what if we take the bluesky firehose.... and put it on a blockchain
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/who-owns-the-future-of-social-media-a-giant-leap-to-decentralize-core-components-of-blueskys-at-protocol-ecosystem-302387397.html
"What problems does this solve?"
"You see, now it is on the blockchain"
It's so funny, it's like what if you got a bunch of celebrities and tech ppl with big names on their resumes, give them a ton of money, and then they did absolutely zero work and had zero thoughts about what to do.
"The blockchain makes it so no single entity has control over a network, except for the kinds of things that can be on the blockchain, their structure, and the stuff you can do with them, that's decided by 5 uh.... wallets"
I can never tell if my favorite part of every blockchain thing is the governance part or the part when they inevitably are like "ok this doesn't actually work and fucking sucks, so to do the thing we said it was for, we have an alternate means of just like using our thing to make a reference to how you would actually do it"
you know how the whole deal with blockchains is how they are like distributed consensus and provide a means of deciding between parallel, competing histories of events? not this one. it's so complicated to do distributed consensus in literally 1kb subsets of messages that we just reject out of order changes
