Some really good thoughts in this post by Paul Frazee about Bluesky’s approach to open protocols and platform bias:

On the one level, we created a neutral protocol to solve the systemic absence of neutrality and choice. On another level, we created a platform to drive an opinionated take on social. They go hand in hand: the killer app of a neutral protocol is an opinionated but interchangeable platform.

I should update my chapter on open gardens to quote this.