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So, unless you have been living under a digital rock or distracted by wannabe dictators demanding ownership of allied lands, you probably missed hearing about a new European social network called W (which was highlighted at the Davos […]

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Wonder what protocol/software stack might be underneath 'W'

So, #ATProtocol eh?

This is all I have collected of any interest. The Issue is still open on Github, and dates to "opened on Aug 12, 2023"

qazmlp on Jun 12, 2024 · edited by qazmlp

"Please excuse the harsh wording, but ATProto is genuinely a "privacy-last" specification where the concept of follower-approval and post privacy aren't meaningful, aside from temporarily deactivating an account entirely.

(Adding a locked account feature to apps isn't entirely impossible of course, but doing so with privacy would require at the least a parallel network with distinct architecture and protocol.)

That's not to say there wouldn't be any value in an appview- and app-side mechanism to limit exposure though, as long as it's made clear that it's trivial to circumvent with an alternative client. That may at least turn away the brunt of the harassment in such situations."

Here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1155#issuecomment-2163556647

This... seems very interesting

#Bluesky is "...standardizing parts of #ATProtocol in an effort to establish long-term governance for the protocol."

"to establish long-term governance for the protocol"

Here: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf

Also see at #Github:

"Add patent pledge link to README (# 4246)"

"Bluesky Social PBC has committed to a software patent non-aggression pledge. For details see [the original announcement] (https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-01-2025-patent-pledge)."

Here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/commit/d239f0bcf5e7ed391c8ced32e13aaa4c1324a757

All that said, not sure exactly what it *means* long-term, but it is... interesting

#AT #IETF #Patents

What a surprise. A protocol that largely depends on centralized sections, gets focused on by federal agencies and ends up needing to identify individual users (and not just their age) and collect their privite information.

It's almost like decentralization was actually a good idea... 🤔

#ATprotocol#ActivityPub#Bluesky

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