Ben WerdmullerEarlier this month I had the privilege of MCing the @team #protocolsforpublishers event in London, bringing together people from publishers and the open protocols that might help them secure their futures. I wrote up my experiences: https://werd.io/building-trust-in-the-open/
Kevin MarksSomething 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 @[email protected] saw at the time.
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: ActivityPub: build community apps - share with your audience
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: ATPtroto - experiment wiht distribution - put content on protocol, let algorithms find audiences
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: the Open social web can separate these again
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: big tech conflated two things - community building and news distribution. They're very different things, but are stuffed into one
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: Mastodon is counter-positioning as the human network - explicitly contrasted with AI-mediated platforms
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: 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 @[email protected]: standards.site is a grassroots standard for longform content so the different longform apps can interoperate
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: beyond bluesky this data lake enables abroader protocol ecosystem - Tangled (github like) Streamplace (video) Leaflet (long form content)