Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

"What if we (Bluesky) did P2P with servers — I'll call that server-to-server."

#ATmosphereConf

Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

Bluesky / ATProto lexicon almost was RDF — and would have been if Paul had more time.

#ATmosphereConf

Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

Bluesky didn't use ActivityPub for 2 reasons —

№1:

Because of the identity issue.

Once you make a choice (of server) you are locked in.

You cannot migrate freely.

(Current Fediverse migration not good enough.)

№2:

The culture on the Fediverse at the time.

There was a culture on the Fediverse of being hostile towards global aggregators.

( @reiver note: AFAICT, this is a very small minority of hyper hostile individuals.)

#ActivityPub #ATmosphereConf

Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

Mentioned MLS (Messaging Layer Security).

#ATmosphereConf

Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

Bluesky practical decentralization:

• cost reduction — cheaper relays
• AppView / self-hosted Bluesky — partial sync based on follow graph — can we reach $100 per month — build smarter sync engine — indiesky
• improve user-experience
• PLC governance — moving to separate legal entity

#ATmosphereConf

Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com

There is a GitHub discussion about ATProto Call For Developer Projects

Call for Developer Projects · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #3049

Call for Developer Projects

GitHub (github.com)

Stuff for others to work on.

#ATmosphereConf

Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me ) on stage.

Presenting about Smoke Signal ( https://smokesignal.events/ ).

#ATmosphereConf

Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me

"On Facebook you are the product and the prey."

#ATmosphereConf

Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me

Mentioned article:
https://www.anildash.com//2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

#ATmosphereConf

Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me

ActivityPub and Mastodon are effectively the same thing to most people.

( @reiver note: this seems similar to the phrase "the Mastodon in the room".)

#ATmosphereConf #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon #TheMastodonInTheRoom

Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me

Mentioned:
https://lexicon.community/

For an organization to create Lexicons.
In JSON-LD talk — this is similar to JSON-LD namespaces.

#ATmosphereConf

Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me

https://plc.directory/ needs to be distributed and P2P.

#ATmosphereConf #DID #DIDPLC #PLCDirectory

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.

#ATmosphereConf

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

#ATmosphereConf

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)

#ATmosphereConf

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

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

#ATmosphereConf #Rust #RustLang

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.

#ATmosphereConf

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

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

#ATmosphereConf

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.

#ATmosphereConf

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

"Towards a Humane Network" (2017)

#ATmosphereConf