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The news of Bluesky and the fediverse of the last 2 weeks, summarised with the most relevant points for Farcaster:

- Meta degrades their fediverse integration, delaying posts by 15 mins before they get send over to the rest of the fediverse
- Swiss government shuts down their mastodon server due to lack of engagement
- A new foundation for the fediverse launches. It is supported by quite some prominent organisations in the fediverse, including Meta. Many independent fedi developers are pretty pissed off about this however, due to Meta's participation
- the temporary DID system for Bluesky is now permanent as DID:Public Ledger of Credentials, paving the way for the next step in decentralised identity management on atproto

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Public Ledger of Credentials

Sounds like a blockchain. 🤣

fwiw, I started to engage with some Bluesky people to promote did:fid as an alternative to did:plc/did:web for Bluesky IDs, but the $3 fee was roadblock. May still be worth perusing one day since did:plc doesn't solve censorship resistance.

Answering the question "where's the beef?"

they've been thinking about hosting the PLC directory under a ICANN-style organisation. running the dir itself is pretty cheap