How can open social protocols fail us?

I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon.

Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly!

How can open social protocols fail us?

I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon.

Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly!

https://shazow.net/posts/open-social-2025/

I would be curious how you would describe it through the lense of gravitropic topologies.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

I would be curious how you would describe it through the lense of gravitropic topologies.

https://protocol-particles.github.io/Phenomena/Gravitropy/

This is the alt account of Sister Hazel. Writings at https://powerlaw.systems.

I could try to describe some general rules in the gravitropic lingo.

The deltas between action spaces and rule sets describe the available MEV of your failure cases.

Different scales of a problem domain come with different permutations of possible equilibria because entropy keeps unfolding within the MEV space. 

In detail it would be interesting to look at various thresholds at which balance shifts one way or the other in terms of gravitational subjectivity, because that morphes player intentions. 

We can't do anything about entropy, but we may be able to understand the gravity behind individual positions and boundary conditions, which all affect the way in which entropy permeates throughout any given system. 

We should  do some case studies given those frameworks because I believe we can make those rules and their hidden links computationally useful like an overlay for reality. I made that point originally in a fictional piece.

I could try to describe some general rules in the gravitropic lingo.

The deltas between action spaces and rule sets describe the available MEV of your failure cases.

Different scales of a problem domain come with different permutations of possible equilibria because entropy keeps unfolding within the MEV space. 

In detail it would be interesting to look at various thresholds at which balance shifts one way or the other in terms of gravitational subjectivity, because that morphes player intentions. 

We can't do anything about entropy, but we may be able to understand the gravity behind individual positions and boundary conditions, which all affect the way in which entropy permeates throughout any given system. 

We should  do some case studies given those frameworks because I believe we can make those rules and their hidden links computationally useful like an overlay for reality. I made that point originally in a fictional piece.

https://xh3b4sd.medium.com/protocol-particles-2fe4fdc9296d

Hmm don't know where to start! Do you have a take?