A Bad Idea Until You Think About It

Paul Frazee, Bluesky’s CTO, and Daniel Holmgren, the Head of Protocol at Bluesky, each published a blog post within minutes of each other last week exploring some of the big ideas of the protocol. It was a classic blog-off, so we decided to settle it on the livestream this week, after the regular news roundup.

Links & Resources

News roundup

• Off Protocol on VoxPort
• “The atproto Spaces Alpha is Live”
• Sign up for the atproto-spaces enabled PDS
• The atproto NYC Community Day recap
• Talks from atproto NYC available on Streamplace
• Troposphere
• Sri’s IRL atproto apps from atproto NYC
• Sam Goto’s FedCM demo
• “Working to Decentralize FedCM”
• Bluesky’s proposed notifications redesign
• Ten-minute videos on Bluesky
• A new Bluesky setting to hide your posts from Discover
• Leaflet’s paid memberships pilot
• Graze joins Flipboard
• Roomy teams up with Modal
• Germ launches voice notes
• Tim Disney’s vision for Skyreader
• Keith Kurson’s atmoBB
• Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider’s AMA on Off Protocol
• Chicago Public Media building on atproto with Roundabout
• All the latest meetups on Atmosphere Community

The blog-off

• Paul Frazee, “SELECT * FROM internet.blogposts”
• Daniel Holmgren, “Reintroducing Spaces”
• An early thread from Paul explaining some of the atproto fundamentals
• “Solving for scale in open networks” Paul’s talk at this year’s Local-First Conf