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Connected Places

Detail in the openairmuseum of Ootmarsum

Jan Hof

Reflections of tree trunks

Decentralisation as a mental framework

In the Fediverse and Bluesky decentralisation is a very relevant shared mental framework. Communities take on a shared mental framework to understand a technology. This essay shares some thoughts on this shared framework
Frozen green moss

Taking Control of Your Timeline – in Different Ways

Examining the different approaches taken by platforms in the fediverse and ATmosphere shows that both networks take quite different approaches. Moreover, these approaches seem compatible with each other, and it's been surprising to me that no platform has really tried to unify these yet.
Detail of building in Amsterdam-North

Bluesky without Bluesky PBC

The ATProto protocol takes the software that runs a social networking app, and splits that up into separate components. We are now seeing the first results of this.