Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me ) and someone in the audience —

Talking about how #Golang interfaces might serve as a good model for how software uses lexicons / namespaces.

Ex: anything that has fields 'A' 'B', etc, just works in the user-interface.

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Peter Wang ( https://bsky.app/profile/wang.social ) on stage.

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Peter Wang ( https://bsky.app/profile/wang.social ) set up a small fund for Developer Grants.

Peter W🤓 (@wang.social)

I want to create an incubator that funds atproto/bluesky experimental projects to the tune of $5k-$10k dev grants. I am sorely tempted to call it “Chemtrails”, because it seeds the ATmosphere Hit me with your best ideas!

Bluesky Social (bsky.app)

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Peter Wang ( https://bsky.app/profile/wang.social

The Rust programming-language is the hipster thing to do and be interested in.

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Peter Wang ( https://bsky.app/profile/wang.social

Social is not like a choice between Linux distributions. Social is something more foundational to human nature.

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Peter Wang ( https://bsky.app/profile/wang.social

Every app doesn't need to be a unicorn. [Some can just be useful.]

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Peter Wang ( https://bsky.app/profile/wang.social

Having a shared social protocol is similar to when the railroads became the same and could work with anyone's trains.

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Peter Wang ( https://bsky.app/profile/wang.social ) mentioned a previous talk of his:

"Towards a Humane Network" (2017)

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Peter Wang ( https://bsky.app/profile/wang.social ) mentioned a previous talk of his:

"The Web We Lost, and The Web We Must Build"
https://github.com/pzwang/lostweb

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Peter Wang ( https://bsky.app/profile/wang.social ) mentioned a previous talk of his:

"Every person's attention is zero-sum."

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Peter Wang ( https://bsky.app/profile/wang.social ) mentioned a previous talk of his:

He (Peter) is interested in investing in AI.

(Ignore the current AI hype. The useful stuff.)

He wants humane and human-focused AI.

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Jay Graber ( @jay.bsky.team ) on stage.

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Jay Graber ( @jay.bsky.team ) mentioned:

"A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace", by John Perry Barlow (of EFF fame)

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

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Jay Graber ( @jay.bsky.team

"Have you heard of the butterfly-effect."

( @reiver note: you can be the butterfly who can have a large effect.)

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I have gone to one of the unrecorded discussion rooms, since the talks are recorded (and I can watch it later).

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Topics up to discuss:

• user intents
• AI feed
• classification & moderation
• using social-media content for research
• labeling & AI tags

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Talking about ATProto user-intent first.

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3 choices for ATProto user-intents:

• opt-out
• undefined
• opt-in

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Peter Wang wants gov't regulators to enforce ATProto user-intent.

( @reiver note: I think that would be a very bad idea — a cure that would be worse than the disease.)

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The same person (Peter Wang) is talking about licensing — i.e., requiring gov't permission.

( @reiver note: again, I think that would be a very bad idea — a cure that would be worse than the disease.)

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