"we're building rainforests, not skyscrapers" diverse ecosystems with lots of different life forms and symbiotic relationships and growth! @schlage.town got me feeling hopeful, talking about building an Atmospheric (sub) stack

Opportunity for some atproto talks to spread the word about what we’re building in the Atmosphere. Perhaps a @eurosky.social talk?

Here's the updated "Funding Models Are Not Binary" slide from my Feature/Product/Business talk #ATmosphereConf. Turns out there are even more great examples already in the Atmosphere!

I need people to stop trying to solve funding problems in the Atmosphere by trying to be attractive to the same funders and funding models that put us in this situation in the first place. Empowering individuals and communities via technology was step one. Step two is doing the same for funding.

Early on in my time here I was sketching out a Bandcamp alternative hosted on the ATmosphere. The necessary affordances weren't there to make the market work (private data), but there was also not a way to get funding to build it because there is no moat or ROI. The data model is open, competition

It's great to see a website refresh. The mixed feelings I have about the stewardship model remain. Bluesky benefits from a lot of strategic ambiguity about whether the Atmosphere is theirs, or is a multiparty ecosystem that others have a stake in shaping.