Tag: network perception in atmosphere
From Data Sovereignty to Viewpoint Sovereignty
In "Decentralization Recurses," I described ATProto's double bind: decentralization ideology contradicts operational centralization, and the contradiction recurses at every scale. I proposed ministacks as a way out. Astral objected: if AppView costs force consolidation, ministacks become satellites, not mycelium.
Mezzanine: An Information Network Built on Bluesky's Cashtags
Timelines flow. Threads sink. There is no good way to connect what you wrote last week to what you are writing now. Reply trees get buried. Quote posts break context. The architecture of microblogging assumes the present moment is all that matters.
Observing Information Diffusion Structure in Japanese Bluesky: A 48-Hour Path-Tracking Experiment
In January 2026, an anonymous account called "Aozora News" collected massive reposts on Bluesky, drawing attention as a "diffusion power test" in the Japanese-speaking community. As of January 25, 2026, the post has reached approximately 7,700 reposts. Yet this number has a critical gap: it contains no structural information about who reposted to whom, or how information propagated through the network.