We recently launched a new podcast to consolidate our livestream Q&A and longer-form conversations with people working at the edges of the open web. We’re calling it Off Protocol.
Earlier this year, we started livestreaming (on Streamplace, of course) as a way to highlight all of the incredible work happening across the ecosystem and to take an opportunity to answer some of your questions.
We quickly discovered that our favorite streams were the ones where we had guests along to tell the stories of how they were building on the protocol. The livestream Q&A, news updates, and guest appearances were starting to feel a bit crowded, though, so we've done a bit of tweaking and are bundling everything into a new show. Off Protocol is now a single feed where you can find when the next livestream is, listen to any you may have missed, and go deep with the people thinking seriously about what the web could be.
We're still going to livestream (on Streamplace, of course), now every other Wednesday at 5:00pm GMT, recorded and available on the podcast feed the next day. The livestreams will still feature the occasional guest, focused on answering your questions, and we'll try to keep things to a tight 40ish minutes. We even added a handy Atmospheric widget to the Off Protocol homepage where you can RSVP ahead of time on atmo.rsvp and Smoke Signal.
This doesn't mean we're going to stop inviting people for wide-ranging conversations, in fact we're expanding our outreach to not just folks building on atproto but also writers, researchers, web developers, creative tinkerers, and people who care about how this all shakes out. These won't drop on a fixed schedule for now, expect one or two a month—check out the latest conversation with Juliet Shen from ROOST.
This has been one of the most fun and gratifying parts of a job that is already filled with fun and gratification. Getting to regularly talk with you folks out there creating new apps, solving long-standing problems, building better ways to be online. I'm excited to bring your work and your voices to more people, please tune in.