<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Harley</title><link>https://har-jon.github.io/</link><description>Recent content on Harley</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:26:07 +0100</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://har-jon.github.io/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Centralised federation: Bluesky</title><link>https://har-jon.github.io/blog/fed_bsky/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:26:07 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://har-jon.github.io/blog/fed_bsky/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;With the arrival of Bluesky back in 2023, it started a conversation about how much control we should be giving social media companies over our data and our lives. The social media website started as a project within Twitter with the goal of making &lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;Protocols, not platforms&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt; back in 2019 before spinning off into its own company. Despite efforts to decentralize the platform, there are still core weaknesses within the protocol that have not been addressed in the three years since the invite-only release.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>