📣📣📣 Next meetup is 8/4 6PM at @codetv.dev studio! @johnandersen777.bsky.social is going to kick us off with a conversation about social.computer, an app that allows ATProto accounts to request and provide compute resources + time for demos and discussions! RSVP here:

People are still talking about what to call the permissioned data protocol. It's not the Authenticated Transfer Protocol, it's the Authorized Transfer Protocol. We could call it the AT protocol, or atproto for short!

“Never before in human history has power over the flow of information been so concentrated in the hands of a few American billionaires.” Hear from @iame.li, Founder and CEO of @stream.place. Streamplace is one of the Open Social Award’s Honorable Mentions open web projects 🏆 newpublic.org/OSA

“AT Protocol and Bluesky…Not a perfect system — just one that doesn't trap you” Sums up why I and many are here creating people-centric products & solution. It’s an experiment to regain sovereignty over mega-monopolistic corporations.

HexDevNextDoor@digit1024.bsky.social · last mo.

digit1024.leaflet.pub/3mpw3tn7owk27 My view on current sate of social networks and centralization of them. #bigtech #opensource #atprotocol #bluesky #facebook #blog #blogpost ( thanks @leaflet.pub for the platform - it is nice )

New on the Gifthood blog: The Condition of Giving

The Condition of Giving

Why I'm building a gifting community on a network you actually own, and what that has to do with a couch, a geohash, and the open web.

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Eli makes an excellent point that a content's access lifecycle can and will change over time (eg. permissioned-to-public and vise-versa). A unified AT-URI that transcends changes in permission is critical to maintaining linkage and references (likes, replies, etc).

Eli Mallon@iame.li · last mo.

NEW BLOG! After closely following atproto permissioned data, my take: what if an "atproto repository" is the base thing and there's more than one way to sync it? Based on @ipv.sx's take and grounded in a real-world Streamplace use case: how do I make a video private, then public?

No better time than a #bskyoutage to test your apps behavior 😀 ! Are there any alternative CDNs to provide failover?

Congratulations reaching this milestone! 🎉

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh · last mo.

hey so, @roomy.space is now generally available for real-world use! 🥳 make atmospheric group spaces for friends & community, chat in real-time, progressively structure emergent topics into evergreen threads and cultivate enduring knowledge.

Great open alternatives to closed corporate products. We now have better choices on the open social internet.

Standard.site@standard.site · last mo.

Standard.site Summer is here 😎 We teamed up with @bsky.app to bring 3 months free when you sign up for an annual plan on: @leaflet.pub @pckt.blog @offprint.app That’s 25% off your first year. Go start your summer writing 🌊⛱️

Another great time tonight - with lots of folks from outside of PDX and live on @stream.place 🎉🎉 Once again, special thanks to @brittanyellich.com for giving us an amazing rundown on ATProto - we hope you all are excited as we are to build See you again next month - same time, same place!

The rapid rise of tech billionaires has shown the world that our data has immense value--value that enriches them at the expense of crumbling communities around the world. We've always been the product. This is the moment of a people-powered internet--let's invest in people, not corporations.

at.fund@at.fund · 3mo ago

The internet has evolved to foster a fatal expectation: that the things we depend on every day are free. They aren't, but we're allowed to pretend they are with the help of ad-driven business models. The real cost is substantial, and can be measured in time, money, relationships, health, and more.

The people-powered internet is happening right now on the Atmosphere! Join us to learn, share, and collaborate on this next wave.

ATProto PDX@pdx.atproto.camp · 3mo ago

Don't forget to join us next Tuesday for the next ATProto PDX meetup, and maybe win yourself a ticket to @cascadiajs.com !!

Next meetup is Tuesday, 5/5!!! Our very own @brittanyellich.com will kick the meeting off with a preview of her CascadiaJS talk on ATProto - AND we're raffling off a free ticket! We'll also do another open breakout session, so if you've got a topic you'd like to discuss, we'd love to hear from you

ATProto 101 + Hangout with your favorite ATmosphere nerds!

Tue, May 5, 6:00 PM PDT · 1551 Southeast Poplar Avenue, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, 97214, United States Come join your fellow idealists, builders, and shitposters for another meetup about th

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Private social networking with friends & family...your data, your device, always available. That's decentralization you can count on! We're inviting users who value their privacy to kick the tires, work out the kinks & make NorthStar Social the best it can be. Join our waitlist: beta.nstar.social

NorthStar Social@nstar.social · 4mo ago

Site down? Network slow? No connection? No problem. NorthStar Social lets you post when & where you want; your private feed lives on-device, where you always have access to it. Post or reply anytime, and they'll automatically send when things are back online—that's local-first! Sneak peek 👀:

Open to new opportunities! If you know of any senior eng / fullstack roles (remote or PNW based), especially in the open source / decentralized tech space, shoot me a DM! 10+ years fullstack, currently building on #atproto, check out @grain.social

Join us in the Atmosphere where it’s all about people not mega-corporations. Our contribution to the Atmosphere this spring will be E2EE private social posts, photos, and videos with family and friends alongside your public interactions. Beta waitlist now open: beta.nstar.com Sign-in sneak peek:

Once our data was all local. Now, it is all in the cloud. But why, when we can have both? Local + Cloud = Better Together = NorthStar Social

Local-First Conf@localfirstconf.com · 4mo ago

" Mobile basically abstracted files away. And that's kind of a win for most of the consumer use cases. But actually is disempowering for creative work that you wanna do." @adamwiggins.com

It must be Friday 😀! Lots of healthy branding discussion about this amazing decentralized ecosystem powered by the AT Protocol. My $0.02: - Be unique. - Be consistent. - Be identifiable. - Be fun. - Be memorable. 🤔 Do I say $0.00 now that US pennies are decommissioned? Or $0.05?

The AT Protocol (aka Atmosphere), Fediverse & Local-first movements are the reaction to the hyper-consolidation of the internet by mega-corporations over 2 decades. We've given up far too much for so little in return. This our chance, tech & non-tech, to restore balance, share ideas & connect.

Tim Trautmann@timtrautmann.com · 4mo ago

I wrote something about atproto from the perspective of having lived through the early days of the internet. timtrautmann.com/blog/the-ner...

Wonderful to see so much interest from the curious to those building in the PDX community! Looking forward to seeing everyone next month. Thank you @graham.systems @katexcellence.io @jason.energy for coordinating & hosting!!

ATProto PDX@pdx.atproto.camp · 4mo ago

Thanks to everyone who came out to our first meetup - lots of great energy and ideas for future meetups! Remember: - We meet 1st Tuesdays @ 6PM, at the @codetv.dev studio - eventsdiscord.atprotocol.dev #us-pdx channel to stay connected - Updates will be posted on this account

Excited to start sharing NorthStar Social with everyone as we lead up to the official beta.

NorthStar Social@nstar.social · 4mo ago

As promised, here's our first sneak-peak of NorthStar Social 👀 These pages are (optionally) shown when you first open the app. They show what we do, what the Atmosphere is, and why both are important. We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback! Signup for the beta here: beta.nstar.social

me and @zicklag.dev gonna stream in 3hrs our chats about permissioned community data on ATProto 😎 come say hi if you’re around! atmo.rsvp/p/meri.garde... (check back in for streamplace link)

Permissioned community data on ATProto

@meri.garden and @zicklag.dev on stream discussing the ATProto permissioned spaces proposal, Stratos, opensocial.community and other work on community management on ATProto, working towards a generic ...

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Things that motivate me: - Sharing lived experiences w/ family & friends - Being out in nature listening to the sounds of the natural world - Collaborating w/ others who want to make our world a better place for all - Making & using technology that enable & empower us to achieve all the above

Still plenty of time to answer some of these questions if you would like. Answers have gone mostly about how I thought they would go for the audience I expected Things I've learned - Needs to be crossplatform - Need more research on android backups of secure material - Interest in secure enclave

Bailey Townsend 🦀@pds.dad · 4mo ago

Hey y'all! One of the things I took from #AtmosphereConf was that there's still a hole to fill to make it easier for users to back up their identities and that something like a mobile app may do that. So if you're interested, please take a bit of time to answer the questions to help shape that app.

My takeaway from Atmosphere: it needs to be WAY easier for builders to get paid So I built at.fund at.fund detects the tools you use, and tells you how to fund the builders who make those tools. And if you're a builder, it takes seconds to add records to that tell your users how to fund you 👍

at.fund@at.fund · 4mo ago

The alpha version of at.fund is live! at.fund is an lexicon+appView for funding signal across the Atmosphere so you can: - if you're a user, fund the builders that make your stuff - if you're a community, highlight who keeps you running - if you're a builder, tell people how they can fund you

Our very first ATProto PDX meeting is coming up!! platform.openmeet.net/events/atpro... Join us to nerd out about #ATProto and catch up on what happened at #atmosphereconf

ATProto PDX - Let's Hangout!

Tue, Apr 7, 6:00 PM PDT · 1551, Southeast Poplar Avenue, Ladd's Addition, Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, 97214, United States **Members of the ATmosphere, UNITE** Come jo

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I wrote about my #AtmosphereConf experience. I hope it's as cathartic to read as it was for me to write. Thank you, everyone, for this amazing experience. All I wish is that we had more time.

The Joy of AtmosphereConf · augment

A blog by Anuj Ahooja

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atproto is fine but at the start of the sentance it would be Atproto which is awful. This is why ATproto is objectively correct and @dholms.at should issue a correction.

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 4mo ago

jay any comment on the internal strife here?? cc @dholms.at

The community didn't hear "we're building this, and here's how we're working with affected projects." -Trezy This is the problem w/ BigTech & AI in general. Tech can be for the enrichment of common good OR to extract wealth for the entitled few. It cannot be both. Actions speak louder than words.

Trezy@trezy.codes · 4mo ago

Finally done. I was able to talk with @pfrazee.com, as well as a handful of other folks with insight on the situation. #atmosphereconf trezy.com/blog/the-mar...

❤️ "build for yourself" ❤️

Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com · 4mo ago

In fact, I'll do you one better: build for yourself, and you'll realize how many you's there really are out there. Works for me every time.