Companies should follow the law, right?

If so, then #ActivityPub is better than #ATproto (and other platforms) for #FreeSpeech. The structure of #bluesky requires the relay be able to block stuff like CSAM but the govt where the relay is located could force whoever is running it to use this capacity to block anything. The entire network would be unable to access whatever that govt decided, no matter the locations of the people who posted the content or those who want to see it. #SocialWeb

"ATProto does not scale wide: it's a liability to add more fully participating nodes onto the network. Meaningfully self-hosting ATProto is a risk to the ATProto network, there is active reason to disincentivize it for those already participating."

#ChristineLemmerWebber, 2024

dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-blue…

Oof. That is *not* good for the claim that BlueSky's protocol can be as friendly to decentralisation and independent hosting as the fediverse.

IMHO that's game, set and match.

#BlueSky #ATProto