I think you’ll really like Yochai’s response immediately after that question (no spoilers). I think that opening question was meant in jest, and it quickly becomes a longer conversation about why all of these designers gravitated toward their particular style of play.
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It was a good panel. GaryCon this year was very fun.
Really interesting and charming panel! For the first time I have seen Brad and Yochai, and I imagined them totaly different in my head when I was listening to the podcast 
Interestingly the panel covered so much more ground then just the OSR or RPGs in general. This could also have been a really great panel on subcultures, communities and similiar. Combined with the effects the internet has on them! I have never been to garycon or similiar and I experience the osr basically solely through the internet, so it made me really curious about the atmosphere on conventions!
Matts commentary on the state of the internet and social media, google plus and blogs, really made me think deeply about how “free” the internet is, and if its really connecting people anymore. Or if its just a big shopping mall.
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I found it a couple(?) years ago but lost it, then thought it was gone because I couldn’t find it on Google. I found it again!
Love the idea of trying to replicate G+ in a distributed manner. ActivityPub is probably more suitable than AT Protocol, see How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
I’ve found Bluesky to be pretty useless, as trying to isolate specific subjects into my feed didn’t seem possible when I went looking for how to do it. I don’t want all of the posts off-subject that people make, so Blueksy wasn’t usable for me. The heaping Bluesky uses for data that makes decentralisation difficult is also reflected in that inability to filter selectively.
I still look on the days of Usenet as a good era due to being able to separate out discussions on specific topics and avoid any discussion on topics not of interest. I don’t know how decentralized Usenet was, though I can point to that type of discussion granularity as something for new systems to emulate.
And if bluesky is like twitter, I’mm doubly glad I never particpated on twitter.
What would a dectralized G+ look like? The way I’m thinking of it, it would be like indie web blogs with some activity stream method of commenting and replying.
I saw that there was a follow-up for this on the event schedule. I’m not sure if I can make the session this year yet, but I hope someone puts the video or audio out on a podcast again.
Yeah I’ll be at Garycon but I think I’m mostly running during the day everyday
I’d be interested in a transcript, certainly.
It’ll definitely go up on the SotD podcast/YouTube again.
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Exactly what I was thinking, and this is already possible with Mastodon! See e.g. Mastodon as comment system for your static blog | GeekWare - Daniel Pecos Martínez