Quilibrium

Not to sound like a FC Maxi, but my priors here are that if this was a serious movement it would have launched on Farcaster. This seems more like a desire to have another bully pulpit on elon's personal server farm, not actually to push forward Ethereum's cypherpunk endgame. I've said it before: actions speak louder than words, and willingness to use a social medium based on Ethereum is a revealed preference that tells me 80-90% of what I need to know, even though it reads like venue bias.

Ethereum stopped being a cypherpunk movement in 2017 (the ICO era). There is still a remnant and many are on Farcaster, but I don't think that is what defines Farcaster. Farcaster is more of an ETH-maxi social incubator.

If you want cypherpunk social, /quilibrium is probably the closest with Nostr as a close second.

Curious what do you think the litmus test is here, I'm more of a big tent guy, I'd even call BlueSky cypherpunk. What I do know is that elon's personal server farm is not it.

Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE

For me, cypherpunk in a sentence would be "ppl writing code that empowers the sovereignty, Liberty, and privacy rights of the individual." BSky's self-sovereign identity design lends itself to this, and the open API would allow anyone to add crypto as an overlay.

wrt to BlueSky, I'd say the vibe is so anti-cypto it does not represent the cypherpunk ethos

Interesting, maybe I disagree on that depending on the nuances of the maximalism, but then why include Nostr on your list?

Good question.

Coin maximalism is the opposite of cypherpunk

You could definitely take ATProto and run with it, though the existing BSky network users today don't custody their own privkeys, so the identity layer would be pretty untied to the crypto layer. You'd also need to add some UI additions to get ENS to work in the  AppView

I've been pondering something (with a few other people that left Farcaster). Could you build a BSky client with an embedded wallet and bootstrap a crypto social there?