@masnick.com I’m listening to your interview with @reckless.bsky.social. This third party doctrine is interesting. Do you think that atproto data would be considered properly owned by the account individual? Would be interesting implications if that public data fall under search and seizure rights.
Mar 12, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Who Even Cares About Data Ownership Anyway? - What The Function!?
Taking a look at a concept that's been talked a lot over the last few years, especially in the context of social media
Rashid Aziz: Extending ATproto for private data - ATProto Community
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images Dear Fedi friends, Apologies for another toot about #WSocial but I am genuinely shaking right now. The @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu and its president Ursula von der Leyen have recently migrated their ATproto (Bluesky) accounts to W Social. I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterprise whose leaders didn't even have ATproto accounts 3 months ago... and who are so open to having their users' data mined to train European AI models. My articles on them: 🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/ Wow. Just wow.
Playing with Parlances - Permissioned Data & AT Protocol - AT-WayFinding
Community privacy is one of our top priorities at @transrights.northsky.social which isn't possible out of the box with any ATproto implementation today that doesn't just hide an entire PDS. We're developing in the open and so I've published a proposal on it, feedback as always is we
@essentialrandom.bsky.social's livestream on Streamplace
Day 4 of Reading the ATproto permissioned data spec (dramatic)
Building Apps With ATProto
The promise of ATproto is social media without corporate overlords | The Web Dev Podcast Series 1
Developers building apps on ATproto, the technology behind social media apps like Bluesky and Leaflet, are promising us a future where we own our content and aren’t at the whims of a tiny handful of companies. Software engineer Zeu Capua talks to host Jason Lengstorf about the promise of social media where we can actually own our own data.
The promise of ATproto is social media without corporate overlords
Emerging from being "down in the technical weeds" of #atproto is a little mashup of @semble.so & WayFinder (wayfinders.network) Semble team released "open collections" this week - here we explore the "private & permissioned data" collection, created by @bmann.ca & now with 3 other contributors
It would be great to get some transparency in here. @janlindblad.bsky.social: 1. will users be able to use the w social app with any #atproto account? 2. will users be able to verify themselves (to be able to post) with any atproto account or do you require users to move their accounts to your pds?
Aye > Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people (..). > Instead of arguing for what kinds of data we ought to be able to download from the corporate silos, the platforms should be asking us what kinds of data they may copy from *our* servers.
Erlend Sogge Heggen
The web can be made personal again. blog.muni.town/personal-data-storage-idea/
Doing some investigation into news data on atproto via @sill.social's appview. The most popular news orgs that don't have an account tied to their domain are: ABC, BBC, CBC. Broadcasting companies hate atproto, you heard it here first.
Mostly withholding judgement on @attie.ai but an important question for me that I haven’t seen asked: Are the primitives atproto records? Will the non-public parts be stored in permissioned repos? Can I ship an Attie competitor that uses all of the users’ same data without touching Attie itself?
Private & Permissioned Data
ATProto Private & Permissioned data
Steps to Data Sovereignty
Habitat & permission spaces for organizations - building [at] habitat
Habitat's road to release: 03 ReBAC on spaces - building [at] habitat
Habitat's road to release: 04 Chalk - building [at] habitat
Habitat's road to release: 05 adopting opensocial - building [at] habitat
Permissioned Spaces Made Pretty — Lexidraw
atproto spaces repo export: feels a bit odd to do a giant index block. seems like this will put a low (and hard) cap on the number of record…
A Jewish Case for AI work exemptions
The AI Resist List
What is the Atmosphere? - Leaflet Lab Notes
Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage - The Blockchain Socialist
Roundabout
How to: Migrate away from Substack
