What ATProto Needs to Support Consentful Distributed Community Governance

On verification and coordination authority - Connected Places

Who verifies the atproto developer community, and why can't it be the community itself?

Open Social

Community management infrastructure for ATProto applications.

ATProtocol Community

A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto

ATProtocol Community

A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto

[Proposal] WG for group/community standards and infrastructure in ATProto

TLDR: I’m proposing a working group to develop shared interoperable standards for community infrastructure within ATProto. Many teams are independently making foundational design decisions about group/community membership, governance, and infrastructure. Without coordination, a de facto standard will calcify from momentum rather than deliberate evaluation of the ranges of community needs. I provide initial questions and principles to start discussion. Many people, apps and projects in developme...

Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.

We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.

Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.

We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.

[Proposal] WG for group/community standards and infrastructure in ATProto

Interested in contributing — specifically to Phase 1 (shared ontology and community archetypes). I’m a cognitive linguist and university researcher. My work on the AT Protocol side includes Mezzanine, an information networking system using opaque cashtag connectors as a routing layer, and two Leaflet pieces on community infrastructure as a gradient — from permissionless tag-based commons to credentialed spaces. The reason I’m flagging my disciplinary background: Phase 1 is where this WG will e...

AT Namespaces for Community Spaces

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

Decentralisation and blogging on atproto - Connected Places

The space for blogging and long-form writing on atproto is rapidly developing, and it gives some interesting insight in what decentralisation on atproto looks like

Rashid Aziz: Extending ATproto for private data - ATProto Community

A Model for addressing privacy on ATproto

When I first got involved with Northsky social, we knew we would have to eventually address the elephant in the room. How do we proactively protect a community from outside influences without relying purely on moderation? And more importantly, how do we keep bad actors from simply pulling their data straight from a relay?

third-party apis: community infrastructure on atproto - Keith's Thoughts

you can just build things from an open set of tools

Owning group data - meri's missives

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