On: Maybe Bluesky has "won"

[mandibles]

Protocols > platforms. Nostr will win long-term because it is a protocol.

[cassepipe → mandibles]

XMPP would like to have a word

[MisterBastahrd → mandibles]

Yes, that's why people go to Usenet for their discussions and not Reddit.

[astrange → mandibles]

This isn't tenable because you need to do moderation and spam filtering, which require centralization.

[mandibles → astrange]

Who is "you"?

[astrange → mandibles]

For platforms I mean the owner of the platform, and for protocols I mean the theoretical person who the users would be wishing owned it so they could do spam filtering.

[verdverm → mandibles]

Bluesky has ATProto (https://atproto.com), so both have open protocols