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Christine Lemmer-Webber

But one way or another people did, after all, seem to actually read deep in the blogpost and especially deep in the thread, which leads to a question, why am I doing this to myself, why am I re-articulating what's already a long-ass blogpost into a long-ass thread?

WHY AM I DOING IT AGAIN

13 December at 19:43 | Open on social.coop
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Christine Lemmer-Webber replied to Christine

Well the last blogpost was 24 pages printed and took me 8 hours to summarize and this one is definitely shorter, it's only..

oh shit it's 20 pages oh fuck

okay I've been awake since 4am and getting this post ready since 5am working 12 hour days lately haha it's no problem

I'm gonna need more tea.

13 December at 19:46 | Open on social.coop
Christine Lemmer-Webber replied to Christine

One more meta thing before we get into it. I want to say up front: working on and building systems is deeply personal, and deeply emotional.

We are talking about systems people pour their lives into. Trust me I know.

It's worth doing a critique, but it's also worth acknowledging the human aspect.

13 December at 19:48 | Open on social.coop
Christine Lemmer-Webber replied to Christine

So anyway. We are going to get into it. And the further we go, the more serious my critiques are going to get. Just because I'm being nice doesn't mean my analysis won't be harsh at points.

Nonetheless let's try to be decent to each other. We all deserve that. Thanks. 💜

13 December at 19:51 | Open on social.coop
Christine Lemmer-Webber replied to Christine

If you can't tell, my narration style buries the lede quite a bit. So lemme tell you what you can expect up front:

- Some fluffier bits I thought were good framing
- A dive-into-literature analysis of the terminology "decentralization" and "federation" and whether Bluesky is either

(cotd...)

13 December at 19:56 | Open on social.coop
Christine Lemmer-Webber replied to Christine

- A defense and analysis of my claim that Bluesky's approach explodes unsustainably ("quadratically") as you try to decentralize it
- "Actually what I'm worried about portable identity isn't what you may think"
- Public content vs community expectations on Bluesky

(cotd ...)

13 December at 19:58 | Open on social.coop
Christine Lemmer-Webber replied to Christine

- A comparison of Bluesky, ActivityPub, and @spritely's values and design goals (invited by @bnewbold specifically in his post! good idea)
- Stepping back and concluding: "Where to from here?"

So yeah. That's a lot to get through. Let's get going.

13 December at 20:00 | Open on social.coop
Christine Lemmer-Webber replied to Christine

Oh yeah and just like last time I WILL NOT BE READING NOTIFICATIONS until I get through this

Sorry, it's impossible. I'll never get through it otherwise. So see your comments on the other side!

13 December at 20:01 | Open on social.coop
Christine Lemmer-Webber replied to Christine

So yes, definitely burying the lede, we are now at "Interesting notes and helpful acknowledgements"

Bear with me, we'll get to the deeper analysis, but this does help frame things I promise

13 December at 20:03 | Open on social.coop
Christine Lemmer-Webber replied to Christine

So first of all, @bnewbold was very nice:

> I am so *happy* and grateful that Christine took the time to write up her thoughts and put them out in public. Her writing sheds light on substantive differences between protocols and projects, and raises the bar on analysis in this space.

Aw thx 💜

13 December at 20:04 | Open on social.coop
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