Notices by Apostolis (apostolis@social.coop)

My own critique on this, from 2017:

https://ryaki-org.blogspot.com/2017/10/freedom-and-autonomy-as-emergent.html

@cwebber @robin @khinsen

@robin

Polycentricity is not the same as democracy.

Pushing the governance at the "local" level , to multiple actors disregards the fact that the design of the common medium, the infrastructure, has its own complex dynamics, that it requires democratic governance.

There is no such thing as a generic infrastructure that does not impose its own views / ethics / dynamics. It will always impose the views of its creators.

Robin, I have not seen you somewhere mention that.

@khinsen

A critique of ATProto by @cwebber demonstrates this with clarity.

"When you build architecture that in theory anyone can participate in, but the barrier to entry is so high so that only those with the highest number of resources can participate, then you've still built a walled garden. -- Morgan Lemmer-Webber, (summarizing things succinctly in our household over breakfast)"

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

@robin @khinsen