Capture-Resistance Protocol (LM-Dawn class)

Class card for the LM-Dawn cluster of protocols structurally designed to resist ownership capture by any single actor. The defining design principle — capture-resistance by architecture — directly inverts the DM-Day plasticity_demand dynamic in which platforms force endless user adaptation to proprietary interfaces, APIs, and lock-in mechanisms. Where DM platforms capture by accumulating switching costs and data moats, capture-resistance protocols make capture structurally impossible: no operator can unilaterally revoke federation membership, foreclose interoperability, or impose proprietary terms on protocol participants. Three protocol sub-families in scope: (1) Capture-resistant federation protocols — ActivityPub (W3C Rec 2018; Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube), AT Protocol (Bluesky 2023+), Matrix (Element 2014+). Federated architecture: any server can participate; no central node can evict others; accounts are portable across server operators. Counter-target: Meta/X-Twitter/TikTok walled gardens. (2) Capture-resistant governance protocols — Nostr (decentralized event relay 2020+), Decentralized Identifiers (W3C DID Core 1.0 2022; see sister LM card machine:decentralized-identity-protocol-class), IPFS (InterPlanetary File System 2015+). No governance single-point-of- failure; relay operators cannot censor or monopolize. (3) Capture-resistant economic protocols — decentralized lending (Aave, Compound 2018+), capture-resistant L1 blockchains (Ethereum post-Merge, Cosmos IBC 2021). Economic rules enforced by public smart contract code rather than platform-owner discretion; no operator can change terms for existing participants unilaterally. LM-framing: these protocols represent the civilizational machine design principle that structural non-captureability is achievable by protocol architecture. DM platforms (Meta, X-Twitter, Amazon, OpenAI) accumulated capture precisely because their technical architectures were not designed against it — they were designed for monetizable lock-in (plasticity_demand imposed on users). LM-Dawn design inverts this: capture-resistance as a load-bearing feature, not an afterthought. Proletarianization risk is MEDIUM-HIGH (0.65 [EXTRAP]): protocol specifications (ActivityPub W3C Recommendation, AT Protocol GitHub, Matrix spec at spec.matrix.org) are inscribed artifacts that persist even when implementing community competence thins. ActivityPub has seen fragmentation in server software maintenance; Matrix has thin homeserver implementation diversity. If no living engineering community re-internalizes the protocol grammars, specifications persist while effective interoperability degrades (Stiegler proletarianization- terminus risk for the federation layer). Cross-era position: hostile_inheritance from DM meta-social-media platforms (ActivityPub/AT Protocol are structural answers to Meta and X-Twitter walled gardens; DM platform incumbents resist federation by asymmetric implementation, limited API support, and algorithmic promotion of in-platform content over federated content); sublimation_coupling toward x-twitter (ATProto/Mastodon structurally render X-Twitter's capture model irrelevant for users who migrate); hostile_inheritance from MM industrial-era patent system (protocol patents create capture vectors that the LM design principle must route around); substrate_provision from DM Linux / open-source ecosystem (all federation protocol implementations run on Linux/OSS stacks); substrate_provision from DM GitHub / ICANN/IETF infrastructure (spec hosting and DNS resolution underpin federation address spaces). All quantitative state-variable values are [EXTRAP]; protocol existence and W3C/IETF standardization facts are [CANON].