Something I found myself saying at the #AtProto meetup and at #ProtocolsForPublishers was that atproto/bluesky is at the 2010 Twitter point where people could see the potential and build on it. The growth of devs is what @pistachio.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy saw at the time.

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: ActivityPub: build community apps - share with your audience

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: ATPtroto - experiment wiht distribution - put content on protocol, let algorithms find audiences

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: the Open social web can separate these again

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: big tech conflated two things - community building and news distribution. They're very different things, but are stuffed into one

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: Mastodon is counter-positioning as the human network - explicitly contrasted with AI-mediated platforms

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: AI Agents - not chatbots but the agents running over atproto - it makes a good substrate as the open data is legible to machines becasue of consistent structure

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: standards.site is a grassroots standard for longform content so the different longform apps can interoperate

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: beyond bluesky this data lake enables abroader protocol ecosystem - Tangled (github like) Streamplace (video) Leaflet (long form content)

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: Eurosky is EU - Gander is canadian; Blacksky is for the black community; Northsky for the LGBTQ+ community

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: Bluesky is the default platform - other options based on geography (Eurosky, Gander) and Identity (Blacksky, Northsky) are popping up

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: when you log into bluesky, you log into an app, but the data is outside. The app picks up a bit of data from the big pool of data and shows you some of it

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: AtProto is different - the Data is separated from the App - the data layer is distinct and your content exists independently from any app

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: Branded community apps - Newsmast and The Bristol Cable - one branded app per server and community - combines community feeds with the publishers articles

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: they have their own agency, their own members and rules - the fediverse is a network of networks - each server is its own network, and part of the rest of the place

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: ActivityPub is 9 years old. Places sending messages to each other - a server is aplace - you can visit it and it has a sense of placeness that is different from the others

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: there are different opportunities becasue the protocols and architectyres are different

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: Two protocols, two visions - ActivityPub: Networked communities; ATProto: Global data layer

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: all the ways that news travels through the network is downstream from its structure

#ProtocolsForPublishers @laurenshof@indieweb.social: Network structure matters and it determines reach. Musk can contrl the algorithm on X, but the network structure that gives him this option