[snorremd]

The PLC governance not having been moved yet is my one main gripe against ATProto/Atmosphere now. There is so much being built on top of this protocol, and I truly believe it has the chance to make the social web more decentralized while keeping everything connected. The PLC being controlled by one major commercial entity allows them to pull the plug so to speak. Say someone is sanctioned by the US, what stops Bluesky from pulling the plug on their DID thereby blocking and censoring this person from the network all together.

Half the point of ATProto is that identities are used across a host of apps, and therein lies a big vulnerability. If identities are not truly independent of centralized infrastructure, then you are vulnerable to losing access to a number of apps at once similar to Google services black hole if your Google account is banned (not to mentioned anywhere you've logged in with SSO).

It would be much better if the PLC was somehow decentralized itself. Barring that it should at least be finally spun out as the independent Swiss organization they've talked about for some time now. The organization could form a board with interested parties to set the future of PLC development if needed.

As for PDS migration, there are good options if you are migrating away from Bluesky. There are lots of GUI tools that work well now like https://pdsmoover.com/moover, Eurosky has https://move.eurosky.tech/, etc. It would be cool though if Bluesky actually linked to the other big PDS-providers on the Bluesky sign-up page to actually promote decentralization. But I guess it is hard to vouch for other services.

I still think the future of ATProto is bright, but there are definitely some obstacles before I'm comfortable with the whole setup. The network needs more decentralization in the PDS-layer, and the PLC needs to spin out in the separate governance organization pronto.

[OneDeuxTriSeiGo]

Technically it has moved (last year actually) but it just doesn't really look all that different in the day to day.

https://atproto.com/blog/plc-directory-org

[snorremd]

Did they actually create the org yet? I saw the news you are linking that they were going to start the process. But I've seen no follow up news about the organization actually being here and the ownership of the PLC directory having been transferred.

[throawayonthe]

> Say someone is sanctioned by the US, what stops Bluesky from pulling the plug on their DID thereby blocking and censoring this person from the network all together.

How does IANA handle this with domain names? genuine question, i'm not sure. is it enough to have distinct registrars and distinct jurisdictions for some TLDs and so on?

[inigyou]

They don't. All domains have US jurisdiction except the ones that are underneath country TLDs.

IANA could stop publishing country TLDs in their root zone file but it would probably split the internet in two, and everyone involved knows that. Several root server operators would refuse the update, and many recursive resolver operators would put them back in.