Scaled-down design patterns
Where Does Community Live? - some responses - Connected Places
I agree that the architecture of a space matters, but I'm not sure the extent we agree as to how much a protocol really matters, versus what we build with them. Roundabout is built on atproto, and I'm quite happy with the decision. I think our architecture very strongly supports our communities.
Where Does Community Live?
ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.
Atproto Ethos - AT Protocol
A deep dive into the philosophical and aesthetic principles underlying the design of AT Protocol.
Giving Labels More Context - at:// pizza thoughts
A small tweak to the labeling system to allow richer context and annotations
Lexicon Service Docs - at:// pizza thoughts
Riffing on some ways to make network services more legible to humans and machines
Spatial Analysis - at:// pizza thoughts
Some dense protocol theorizing about atproto spaces
Spatial Analysis - at:// pizza thoughts
Some dense protocol theorizing about atproto spaces
From ZK-first to AT Protocol — our path to DDS | Agora Citizen Network
We've been building Agora — a platform for public deliberation using Polis-style clustering — for a while now. Along the way, we've written about what we think about Nostr, AT Protocol, Polis, Community Notes, and protocol interoperability. Those posts are somewhat outdated now. This one describes w...
The AT Protocol's interesting design - LittleBit
Bluesky's backend was made to be more than a social network
Custom Feeds Are Not Communities — A Design Theory of Feeds and Commons - Nightflight
gifthood.community — coming soon
A neighborly way to give and receive, freely, built on the AT Protocol.
The AT-URI Syntax Mess - at:// pizza thoughts
Why AT URIs are not valid under IETF RFC-3986, what the impact is, and some possible ways forward.