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Blue Skies Over Mastodon (with Erin Kissane and Tim Bray)

Oxide and Friends

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The Immutable Distributed Ledger Without Calling It a Blockchain

Blue Sky is a new social network that lets users post messages without fear of censorship. It's designed to be independent from other systems, so if one instance dies you can move the data and it will still work. The system has been criticized for its lack of decentralization but J says he doesn't care about those things right now. He also thinks there are some good technical reasons why people should use Blue Sky.

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