Opensocial.community proposal

Hey folks! This is an opinionated proposal I put together for the community WG. Still a few open questions/uncertainties that I list at the ned. Check it out here: opensocial communities proposal - Google Docs Feel free to comment here or we can chat more in the next WG meeting.

Arbiter Progress Report 3 - Zicklag's Leaflets

The first arbiter prototype is live!

atmosphere.community

The community hub for apps and people building on AT Protocol

Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse

Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific purpose: a study circle, a lab team, an activist collective, a local mutual aid crew, a project team. Inside you’ll find posts, conversations, calendars, shared resources, and more. Crucially, groups will be portable and interoperable.

On Atproto and Atmospheric Groups - The Tropopause

I'm starting A Fresh Blog(tm), this time on Pckt. I wanted a dedicated space to post about development, atproto, and community thoughts, and a new space felt li...

The Arbiter - Group Management for Permissioned Spaces and Beyond - Zicklag's Leaflets

The permissioned data proposal has the concept of membership, but leaves it to the app to orchestrate it. The arbiter is our idea for a general-purpose, interoperable ATProto group membership service.

Account delegation for atproto: orgs, aliases, alts and more - Nel Ramblings

Evaluating permissioned spaces for community contexts - meri's missives

A look at Bluesky's proposed approach to private data on ATProto

Open Social

Community management infrastructure for ATProto applications.

AT Namespaces for Community Spaces - at:// pizza thoughts

How should public community-controlled spaces be represented in atproto?

Community Spaces on AT Protocol - at:// pizza thoughts

Scaled-down design patterns

Building for Organizers - The People Layer

The most enduring social networks aren’t the prettiest or the most addictive – it’s the ones that empower organizers.

Representing groups in ATProto

I wanted to add book clubs to my GoodReads-like app (Collective), but ATProto doesn't have a standard way to handle shared group resources yet. So I'm building opensocial.community—a separate service that manages groups independently from any single app. This means the same book club could potentially work across multiple apps (imagine your book club having both a reading list in Collective AND a discussion forum in another app), and groups can migrate between providers if needed. It's probably over-engineered for my use case, but might help other ATProto developers building community features.

Owning group data - meri's missives

Thinking about how communities can manage shared data on and off ATProto

The Community Manager Pattern - Nick's Blog

This post looks more closely at Brittany Ellich's work on representing groups in ATProtocol. It builds on earlier conversations and explores how these ideas might work in practice.