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this is really great, and i'm glad that you're thinking about it!! I just started building @atmobb.app and wanted to build a way for it to pull in topics from similar forums and landed on subscribing to a "topic" for those forums. very excited to see what happens!!
On March 29th, we held an in-person meeting to check in with the community and discuss potential updates to the standard.site spec. A huge thank you to @cozylittle.house for putting together a detailed summary of everything we discussed. leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:kydzcmnywraao2srchq…
Standard Site Working Group Meeting Notes 3/29/26
leaflet.pubNew project! I recently needed feedback on a doc I was writing and didn't have a good place to post it. So I built requested.fyi. Post docs, get comments, all on the Atmosphere. disnetdev.com/blog/rfcs-on-the-atmosphere
RFCs on the Atmosphere
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