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Hank Green is the absolute KING of *almost* getting it. He has a month-old very frustrating video where he gushes a bit about how "Blue Sky is a Protocol!"

I mean, yes, you are technically correct. But it is not functioning like a protocol at all, come on.

(edit: video was not "new" it's from last month "someone is making social media bots that disagree with everything" the blueSky bit is at the start)

It's clear SOMEONE tried to explain things to him and about 1/3 of it got through.

And ... really he's not person who I'd call averse to complex ideas about media ... but boy oh boy what a reality check about just how HARD this is going to be.

It also shows that the BlueSky line about "oh we're a protocol too" is doing just what we'd suspected.

mcc

@futurebird There's this classic problem in tech where people think only about the technical aspects of a thing and not thinking about the social dimensions. The bluesky protocol thing is such an unusually pure example! There's social/economics dimensions baked *directly into the protocol* that turn it into something other than a protocol, but if they're focused entirely on the bits they just don't see it.