Why Don't We Just Do This Together?
Jim sits down with members of the core team building and governing Standard.site, the shared Lexicon for publishing longform writing on atproto. Brooke from pckt.blog, Jared from Leaflet, and Miguel from Offprint cover the design tradeoffs in creating a new shared format, tales of data migrations, strategies for shared governance, and why you shouldn't buy a premium domain name.
With Brooke, Jared, and Miguel
Hosted by Jim Ray
Show notes
Standard.site is, as best we can tell, the most successful community-driven Lexicon in the AT Protocol ecosystem to date. Even more amazing, this shared format for blog posts, articles, and newsletters was built and continues to be governed by three competing blogging platforms: Offprint, Leaflet, and pckt.blog.
Jim sat down with three of the core team members, Brook from pckt.blog, Miguel from Offprint, and Jared from Leaflet, to walk through how they found each other, why they decided a single shared format was better than three competing ones, and why they deliberately kept it small.
This conversation gets into the design decision to standardize on the metadata while keeping the content field open and customizable, the gnarly work of migrating thousands of existing posts to a new format across a decentralized network, and how this core team of competitors governs the standard. They also lay out where they see things going with the possiblity of new types of reader apps, new ways of monetization that support writers, and what permissioned data on the protocol might unlock.
This episode was released the same day Bluesky added Standard.site to the core app as a new avenue for discovery.