"This is all to say: blogging plus feed readers started out a lot more decentralized than Bluesky has, and having one big player enter the room and then exit effectively killed the system." says @cwebber in this post https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
also my point in Reclaiming the Blogosphere series: having reading and writing/responding in different spaces adds a lot of friction (getting ready to write more, some light background reading first)

Stephanie Booth
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"This is all to say: blogging plus feed readers started out a lot more decentralized than Bluesky has, and having one big player enter the room and then exit effectively killed the system." -
does anybody have thoughts on nostr?does anybody have thoughts on nostr? https://nostr.com
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@davew what is daytona?@davew ah! that makes sense. Thanks! Why the "weird" name? 😅
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@davew what is daytona?@davew what is daytona? https://daytona.scripting.com
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@davew heya!@davew heya! so when do we get to play with this? https://daveverse.org/2025/09/25/invoking-the-editor-in-wordland-0-8/
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"It happened so slowly that we didn't notice but Twitter wiped out the idea of the web developer."It happened so slowly that we didn't notice but Twitter wiped out the idea of the web developer. The platforms we were trying to make work together were programmed so they couldn't work together." – says @davew (or is it @scripting ?) here http://scripting.com/2025/09/23.html#a151348
I remember the time when there was a thriving and buzzing ecosystem of apps and services around Twitter. Instagram, Tweetdeck, Seesmic, and so many others. And then Twitter locked things up. That was the move that ended things.