Indeed, our biases color our view — I am an open source and open protocols advocate, so arguably taking a project, filing off the serial numbers, and close-sourcing it would affect my own view.
However, the facts of the project’s history smell like French red cheese left out in the Spanish summer.
It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His [Portfolio] Depends Upon His Not Understanding It
Starting to think that, over the next weeks, W is going to provide a useful EU lightning rod.
If I were Bluesky PBC, I’d be test-driving any potentially controversial features in the EU right about now. 😹
Paging @monkchips.com
I hadn’t had to think about this before, but… respecting blocklists might make it harder to run an ad-driven business. 🤔
I've managed to mostly avoid it, even if I sometimes have to use Safari to connect to a PWA running on device to check the logs.
I have to say... the console output is damn near unreadable.
It's another one of my "nobody at Apple can possible use these things" list items.
It’s not even about the spirit of the thing — an email server that refuses to send or receive some messages against the controlling user’s desire is not following protocol, period.
ATProto is not about the format data gets stored as. 99% of baseline affordances is not respecting the protocol.
If this isn't endorsing a private product, as @thomasregnier.ec.europa.eu claims, why do we have President von der Leyen posting a branded influencer tease video?
This was always the risk for tech sovereignty: that it would die from cronyism.
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Depends on who you mean.
If re @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, I'm guessing W are better connected and got their ear, but as @sebastian.eurosky.social has mentioned the EC should just be running their own PDS.
If re W... well, you can't pitch an ad business around ID-verified users like that, can you?
I didn't have the background on W Social... Starting as "climate change awareness", pivoting at Davos into "EU media infrastructure", while close-sourcing a US-born open source project.
It stinks of opportunistic narrative-chasing.
Via @elenarossini.com
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