Server User Agents (SUAs)

Modeling communities on permissioned data - Daniel's Leaflets

Arguing against "universal spaces" and raising a couple questions that come up as a result.

The Heart of Spritely: Distributed Objects and Capability Security

This paper is the second in a three-part series outlining Spritely's thinking and design. The first paper, Spritely: New Foundations for Networked Communities, explains the problems which face contemporary social network design. This paper details the core technical toolbox provided by Spritely Goblins and how it supplies the necessary features to feasibly build out Spritely's broader vision. The third paper in the series, Spritely for Secure Applications and Communities, ties the first two papers together by showing how the architecture for user-facing software fulfills the vision of the first paper and can be built on top of ideas from this paper.

The Case For Universal Login and "Off-Protocol" Services

openPDS/SafeAnswers - The privacy-preserving Personal Data Store

Protecting the Privacy of Metadata through SafeAnswers

ActivityPub Over ATProto

Thought experiment: how hard would it be to implement ActivityPub over ATProto? The answer might surprise you!

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.

What does a PDS implementation entail? · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #2350

This is an informal overview of what a PDS does and what a "full" implementation covers. A few folks are working on independent PDS implementations, either as earnest real-world infrastru...

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Notes from the 41st IIW

You're Gonna Need A Bigger Browser

Browsers are hugely load-bearing in the Web's architecture, and yet they haven't changed very much in quite a while. If the Web is indeed for user agency, we should take a hard look at our user agents to see if they might not need improvement.