DASL: ATFISL — Content Discovery with the AT Protocol

ATFISL is a content discovery system for CIDs built with the AT Protocol. Publishers announce download locations for CIDs by publishing records to their AT Protocol repositories. Indexers aggregate these records into a lookup table from CIDs to live locations. ATFISL is complemented by FISL which defines an HTTP query API for ATFISL records.

DASL: FISL — Finding Internet Structures & Links

FISL is an HTTP lookup API that maps CIDs to locations, so that a client with a CID can find out where to retrieve it from and who announced it. A client sends a CID, and the index returns the URLs where content can be retrieved, along with the identity of the publisher when known. FISL specifies only the query interface, so it works with any indexing system that supplies location records.

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

cooperative/Formation Documents at main · NorthskySocial/cooperative

Information about our Cooperative. Contribute to NorthskySocial/cooperative development by creating an account on GitHub.

Northsky Update #2: Our Cooperative Structure

We’re excited to bring you another Newsletter as we approach launching Northsky. This time we’ll be covering:

Introducing Bluesky Protocol Services - AT Protocol

A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK

The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live - AT Protocol

Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.

Building the Social Graph with Hubble and Jetstream - 50 Shades of Protocol

Recently Northsky Social launched it's own Social App to much fanfare and we got a lot of great feedback on it! Of course, one thing that many users noticed was...

Africa - Assess Technology

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The Huniki Federation

Put language tech in the hands of the people who actually speak it.

Key Agreement for Decentralized Secure Group Messaging with Strong Security Guarantees

Secure group messaging protocols, providing end-to-end encryption for group communication, need to handle mobile devices frequently being offline, group members being added or removed, and the possibility of device compromises during long-lived chat sessions. Existing work targets a centralized network model in which all messages are routed through a single server, which is trusted to provide a consistent total order on updates to the group state. In this paper we adapt secure group messaging for decentralized networks that have no central authority. Servers may still optionally be used, but they are trusted less. We define decentralized continuous group key agreement (DCGKA), a new cryptographic primitive encompassing the core of a decentralized secure group messaging protocol; we give a practical construction of a DCGKA protocol and prove its security; and we describe how to construct a full messaging protocol from DCGKA. In the face of device compromise our protocol achieves forward secrecy and post-compromise security. We evaluate the performance of a prototype implementation, and demonstrate that our protocol has practical efficiency.

LLM APIs are a Synchronization Problem

Maybe the LLM message APIs should be rethought as a synchronization problem.

The Real Name Fallacy - Coral by Vox Media

The Coral Project is an open source project to help publishers of all sizes build better communities around their journalism. We’re creating tools that help everyone to feel safe, respected, and heard.

Exit 8 (2025) | Rotten Tomatoes

Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for Exit 8 (2025) on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!

On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse

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Composable Trust, Part 3: 1 Community, 3 Sovereigns, No Landlords - Eclectic Corvine Muses

An architectural model to yield members, Rosters, and Venues sovereignty over their own domains, and none over each other’s.