mixed feelings about missing the Atmosphere conference currently at UBC. Spouse and I are on a mini working trip elsewhere in BC

mirrors my mixed feelings about Bluesky/ATProto generally. Some great people are in that space but it is very unclear to whose benefit all of this will be. Even disregarding the perfidy of the dominant company, I don’t buy the premise that distributed networks are meaningfully more free, nor that social media feeds are a net good. Other than that it all seems cool 🤷‍♂️