fwiw this is a somewhat tepid statement, and i’m less familiar with how the metaphor is used in its technical sense. and it certainly isn’t an endorsement of centralization (but this is kind of cheap bc it’s not like i have fleshed out alternative).

also the tech meaning seems so thin that it’s basically worthless. like it sometimes seems like sprinkling a political flavoring on “interoperable”. in that case atproto is a federatable protocol and bsky is trivially but not meaningfully federated, which is like conceptually fine ig

oh and i should be transparent that something akin to “credible exit” is my primary concern too, because i mostly care about my own records and could ultimately do without anyone else’s. i like that atproto is centered around an ID (and my most pressing concerns are the very real DID issues)

i like the model of extensible lexicons a lot. i like that everything is just json. to be frank, i don’t really give that much of a fuck about the social part, outside of how it interacts with the integrity and accessibility of my records (moderation).

so it’s kinda like yeah i hope y’all sort that relay problem out, whatever. it’s a big issue for social but tbh i don’t know how much Relay1 + Relay2 + RelayN does much to meaningfully resolve what power issues there are.