Even before the arrival of #atproto was the question of what #decentralization of the web means quite murky, with multiple competing protocols at different abstraction layers. As frequently said, at one level the web is already decentralized so envisaging pure #p2p is also conceivable, why the need for #activitypub (or whatever) "servers"?

We come to realize that the problem is not well defined. First of all it does matter what you assume about the distribution of silicon and networks...

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@futurebird Absolutely agree - a project I need to get back to working on and get to a github-able state: self generated "stateful identity tokens" ('idens') which can be used indefinitely as a proof of continuity/identity publicly everywhere - so the individual may be human or not, but we know in any context where they publish or interact that they are still "them".

I need to start re-reading my code and figure out how complete/ugly where I left off is.

The journal Fast Capitalism just published a special section on #Napster's 25th anniversary containing no less than ten articles. Looks interesting:
https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/issue/view/33