Bard spotting on Bluesky 29 November 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

All of what she's mentioned was aimed at Reddit between 2015 & the present day.

There's a reason ATProto is a standardised protocol - it isn't economically feasible to sue 10,000 PDS operators into bankruptcy, impossible to torpedo all of them

Katie Tightkitty (@katie.bzky.team):

not to be a conspiracy theorist but i wish More Of You understood the extremely delicate political climate that bluesky is now operating in with the recent fascist ascendancy and right wing media apparatus that seeks to snuff out any threat to their disinformation monopoly which bluesky represents.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

You can't buy / hostile takeover / backdoor / overhaul case law in the corporation's chartered jurisdiction if there's 100's of jurisdictions

You can't buy 10,000 judges and AGs and governors

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Something people keep asking for is "When are ya gonna make private accounts"

Private accounts aren't in the design specs

Using ECDSA crypto to cryptographically sign the underlying records, already is

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The servers are already likely employing hardware like surplus GPUs & HTTPS accelerator silicon to do the trustability signing

Future extensions could possibly integrate user key exchange, perfect forward secrecy, etc etc etc

Just a matter of talented people building on the foundation here

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The AOC thread a few days ago, where everyone and their dog responded with "Get Signal" —

This is the model (threat model, hardening model, distribution of domains model) Signal uses.

Everyone their own server