free software folks: what design/org patterns are there for publishing community software to mainstream app stores these days? eg, is there an umbrella org/institution that publishes free software apps to the app stores, on behalf of community projects? could be an org like ASF. I'm not […]

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work. Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

@bnewbold and Dan Holmgren wrote a really nice document for the IETF describing how Bluesky / ATProto works at an architecture level. If you are curious, recommended! https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-newbold-at-architecture/

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I love my stem cap

wrote up a reply to @cwebber's "How decentralized is Bluesky really" blog post: https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t

also some july hiking. cascades winter snow is coming on hard!

I forgot to larch-post over here, didn't I

good job everybody

Bluesky had some infrastructure problems last week which impacted @bsky.brid.gy (along with Bluesky's own PDS instances), but it should be functioning smoothly for new content now. Here is a post showing atmosphere-to-fediverse […]

Late time of year for such a nice flower

can somebody remind me what the Threads ActivityPub milestone is that will roll out in December? bi-directional posting?

after the 2016 Trump election, there was a big movement to preserve government data and websites (EDGI: https://envirodatagov.org/). I wasn't around for that, but I think there was a missed connection between web archive world and volunteer/movement world. if similar efforts spring up in […]

before I worked at Bluesky, I worked with scholarly metadata and infrastructure. that field has had it's chain jerked around a lot w/r/t funding and sustainability of infra: maintenance, enclosure, M&A / consolidation, enshittification, grants, collective action, etc. not dissimilar to web!

I think what many folks really want from "federation" is a situation where no one party has more than 40% (or 10%, or whatever) of the network. That is a powerful and special property! Fediverse has it today, and most networks don't. It is different from adversarial interop though. There are […]

bluesky got more funding, and is working on several sustainable revenue models: subscriptions, domain registration, and payments. work continues on atproto: tooling for independent Lexicon development; more docs/specs and testing for interop; more complete and documented SDKs […]

anybody know more about this work? can't find any social contacts etc from the website. https://arcanican.is/excerpts/did-method-fedi/ https://arcanican.is/primer/ap-decentralization.php very atproto and did:plc brained!

wrote up a proposal for exposing "moderation history" back to individual accounts as part of Ozone, an atproto moderation system. I think that the Mastodon reporting system already has similar functionality, but not sure about other ActivityPub project. Curious for feedback! […]

We got a blog post out summarizing our launch of OAuth for AT Protocol, and what work remains. This has been a huge project, led by Matthieu, with input from a bunch of standards folks and devs. This tries to solve the same basic challenge that ActivityPub has, and builds on work by […]

doing a W3C #tpac2024 session soon on Responsible DNS Integerations! hear what my co-workers and I are working on at IETF around identity on the social web https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/4063788d-6e26-4d19-8898-d7ceb448fca9/

@mallory congrats on SWF launch! a whole lot of diplomacy and navigation ahead, but can think of few people more credible and able to pull it all off than you.

I was at #fediforum only briefly as a #fediforumattendee, but happy to stay in touch and follow-up with folks!

really excited about this tutorial we put out last week describing how to build a minimal non-bsky app on atproto: "Statusphere" https://atproto.com/guides/applications https://github.com/bluesky-social/statusphere-example-app there are a lot of questions (and options!) about how cross-app […]

is adversarial interoperability a goal for the ActivityPub/Mastodon ecosystem? how does it interact with opt-in culture/expectations?

bit of personal blogging about atproto, and progress we are making on early goals+values for the protocol. https://bnewbold.net/2024/atproto_progress/

pretty beautiful weekend in the north cascades!

@ntnsndr.in affective/effective voice distinction is my brainworm of the moment. still very much looking forward to a @kissane.bsky.social prospect/refuge values write-up though!

well, well, well, who has a former twitter exec on their board now?

very satisfying meal!