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The update of "bluesky", an independent team funded by the founder of Twitter: a comprehensive review of the elements of a decentralized social ecology

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A 60-page review document.

Rhythm BlockBeats news, on January 22, the small independent team "bluesky (Blue Sky)" funded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey updated its dynamics on Twitter. The team stated that starting from February 2020, the team invited practitioners from different fields in the decentralized community to conduct online discussions and collaborations on "bluesky's service purpose and direction". A review of the ecosystem.

According to Rhythm BlockBeats, this 60-page review document comprehensively sorts out the components of a decentralized social ecosystem, including protocols, applications, and related subdivisions. Among others, protocols include ActivityPub, GUN, Hypercore, Protocol (Dat), IPFS, Matrix, Peergos, Solid, and XMPP; applications include Aether, Blockchain social networks, Diaspora, Mastodon, and SSB social networks; and related topics cover data , discovery, governance, authentication and remediation, and network architecture and privacy.

In peer-to-peer ecosystems, sometimes there is no clear distinction between protocols and applications, and the diagram above attempts to illustrate where these peer-to-peer items fit in the stack.

In the "Alliance" social ecology, the classification of these protocols and applications is relatively clear, they follow the common client-server model, Diaspora is the name of both the protocol and the social application, Solid, on the other hand, doesn't have a social networking app.

Rhythm BlockBeats Note: "Solid" (Social Linked Data) is a project launched by Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, at the end of 2017. A company called Inrupt promotes the commercialization of Solid. According to the official introduction, Solid is a decentralized social platform, and Inrupt's mission is to "Re-decentralize the Internet", that is, to "re-decentralize the Internet" - the user decides which applications can read the user's data, and the data Ownership of the . To achieve this goal, Solid also implements the identity authentication system of WebID , as long as you use WebID, you can log in to all applications that support Solid.

In addition, "bluesky" The team says they are looking and hope to find a better solution in the coming months, and they would love to hear from those interested.

According to Rhythm’s previous report, on December 11, 2019, Jack Dorsey said that he would design for social media A set of open source, decentralized standards, the whole process may last for many years. “This won’t happen overnight, it will take many years to develop a sound, scalable and usable distributed standard for social media that will pave the way for solving the above challenges. Our commitment is to fund this work, Until it's done."