Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up in Social Network Decentralized Architecture
There’s been a truly fascinating back-and-forth technical conversation between Christine Lemmer-Webber, one of the authors of ActivityPub, and Bryan Newbold, a core engineer at Bluesky.
I won’t even attempt to summarize what they talk about because frankly, some of it goes straight over my head—and I’m a Web software programmer! But how I might explain the gist of it in incredibly simple terms is this…
https://theinternet.review/2024/12/14/top-down-vs-bottom-up-networks/
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