Is Cory Doctorow right in doubting that any platform that launches as a single-company project will resist the pull toward enclosure? Even if Bluesky’s protocol is nominally open, the question is:

• Who funds the servers?
• Who decides on moderation?
• Who controls the namespace/identity registry?

If these stay centralized, then you’ve just created another Twitter clone with a veneer of openness. The danger is that early adopters get lured in, and only later find themselves just as locked in.

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